UNivERSin OF Chicago 
An Official Guide 





KEY TO BUILDINGS 

Numbered in Chronological Order 



1. Cobb Lecture 
Hall 

2. North Hall 

3. Middle Divinity 
Hall 

4. South Divinity 
Hall 

5. Kent Chemical 
Laboratory 

6. llyerson Physical 
Laboratory 

7. Snell Fall 

8. Foster Hall 

9. Boecher Hall 
10. Kelly Hall 
n. Green Hall 

12. M'alker Museum 
18. President's House 
14. Haskell Museum 



15. Physiology 

16. Anatomy 

17. Zoology 

18. liotauy 

19. Ellis ftall 
2f>. Hitchcock Hall 

21. The University 
Pi-ess 

22. Power House 

23. High School 
Gymnasium 

24. Emmons Blaine 
Hall 

25. Hutchinson Hall 

26. Reynol.ls Club 

27. Mitchell Tower 

28. Mandel As.sembly 
Hall 

29. Law School 



Lexington Hall 
Bartlett Gymna- 



sium 

32. Beltield Hall 

33. Boys' Clubhouse 

34. Ps.vchological 
LaboraiorLes 

ao. Kimbark Hall 

36. Harper Memorial 
Lil)rary 

37. Athletic Grand- 
stand 

38. Classics 

39. Kosenwald Hall 

40. Ricketts Labora- 
tory 

41. Ida Noyes Hall 

42. Warehouse 



THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
AN OFFICIAL GUIDE 



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The University of Chicago 
An Official Guide 



By 

DAVID ALLAN ROBERTSON 

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Secretary to the President 



THIRD EDITION 




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^ J TABLE OF CONTENTS 

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Introduction i 

A Historical Sketch 2 

General Suggestions to Visitors 10 

General Information 13 

The Site 15 

The University Architecture 17 

The Buildings and Grounds 20 

A Tabular List 20 

1. Cobb Lecture Hall (i) 21 

2. North (or Graduate) Hall (2) 24 

3. Middle Divinity Hall (3) 24 

4. South Divinity Hall (4) 25 

The Graduate Quadrangle 25 

5. EUis Hall (19) 25 

Students' Observatory 26 

6. Botany Greenhouses 27 

Drexel House 27 

Divinity Apartments 27 

Missionary Apartments 27 

7. Power House (22) 27 

8. University Press (21) 28 

9. Psychological Laboratories (34) 30 

10. Howard Taylor Ricketts Laboratory (40) .... 31 

11. Kent Chemical Laboratory (5) 32 

12. Ryerson Physical Laboratory (6) 35 

13. Snell HalU7) . .--^'^ .^^.^ 38 

14. Charles Hitchcock Hair (26) 39 

Hull Court 41 

Hull Biological Laboratories: 

15. Physiology Building (15) 42 

16. Anatomy Building (16) 44 

17. Zoology Building (17) 45 

18. Botany Building (18) 46 

Hutchinson Court 48 

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Tower Group: page 

19. Hutchinson Hall (25) 48 

20. Reynolds Club (26) 58 

21. Mitchell Tower (27) 62 

22. Leon Mandel Assembly Hall (28) .... 66 

23. Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium (31) ... 68 

24. Athletic Grandstand: Stagg Field (37) 71 

25. Walker Museum (12) 74 

26. Julius Rosenwald Hall (39) 76 

27. Law School Building (29) 81 

28. William Rainey Harper Memorial Library (36) . , 87, 

29. Haskell Oriental Museum (14) 96 

The Theological Building 98 

Harper Court 99 

30. Classics Building: Hiram Kelly Memorial (38) . . 99 

31. Greenwood Hall 103 

The Women's Quadrangle . 103 

32. Nancy Foster Hall (8) 103 

33- KeUy HaU (10) 105 

34. Green Hall (11) 105 

35. Beecher Hall (9) 106 

The Quadrangle Club 106 

Chicago Theological Seminary 107 

Disciples Divinity House 107 

36. Lexington Hall (30) . 108 

The Site of the Chapel 109 

La Maison Frangaise 109 

Woodlawn House 109 

37. The President's House (13) no 

38. Ida Noyes HaU (41) no 

Scammon Court 117 

39. Emmons Blaine Hall (24) 118 

40. High-School Gymnasium (23) 122 

41. Kimbark Hall (35) 122 

42. Henry Holmes Belfield Hall (32) 123 

Ryder Divinity House 125 

Yerkes Observatory 125 

University College 127 

The University of Chicago Medical Schools .... 128 

The University of Chicago Settlement 131 

The Coat-of-Arms 132 

"Alma Mater" 133 



INTRODUCTION 

This guidebook, containing some mention of all the existing 
buildings of the University of Chicago, is designed to emphasize 
especially those structures which can be visited by persons who 
can give only a short period to the study of the institution. In 
addition to such practical information as has been sought by 
many who have already journeyed to the quadrangles, it seeks 
to be of service especially to new students by giving some notion 
of the kind of people who contributed to the making of the 
University — not only those who gave funds for buildings and 
endowments, but those who, as trustees and members of the 
Faculties, have devoted themselves loyally to its advancement. 
Not all, of course, can be even mentioned, for the members 
of the Faculties alone number over four hundred and fifty. 
When, however, a particular room or building is associated with 
a particular person that relationship is noted in the belief that 
visitors will be glad to regard the institution not only as an 
architectural museum, but as a habitat of scholars who are 
contributing to the increase of knowledge and the enrichment 
of human life. 

Most of the photographs were made by Associate Professor 
W. J. G. Land and the writer. In compiling the text free use 
has been made of already existing descriptions in the University 
Record and the Annual Register. Because the development 
of the University is so rapid, errors and omissions are doubtless 
manifold. Corrections and suggestions will be gratefully 
received. 



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A HISTORICAL SKETCH 

The city of Chicago was not yet twenty years old when there 
was founded in it by Hon. Stephen A. Douglas a University of 
Chicago. This institution was a small Baptist college built 
on land lying west of Cottage Grove Avenue at Thirty-fourth 
Street. Until 1886 this college served well an appreciative 
community. In 1886 however, financial difficulties forced its 
extinction. 

The Old University had been dead but a short time when 
T. W. Goodspeed and others interested in establishing a col- 
legiate foundation in Chicago began to make plans for a new 
university. About this time also John D. Rockefeller, who had 
already become one of the leading business men of the country, 
interested himself in the possible founding of a college in New 
York or Chicago. The American Baptist Education Society, 
of which F. T. Gates was secretary, was studying the problem of 
a new collegiate institution. In December, 1888, the Education 
Society approved an effort to establish a well-equipped insti- 
tution in Chicago. At the annual meeting of the Education 
Society in May, 1889, the Society formally resolved to take 
immediate steps toward the founding of a college in the city 
of Chicago. To make this possible Mr. Rockefeller at once 
subscribed $600,000 toward an endowment fund on the con- 
dition that $400,000 be pledged before June i, 1890. Mr. 
Goodspeed and Mr. Gates at once undertook the raising of the 
fund. This was accomplished, and in addition there was secured 
from Marshall Field, of Chicago, a block and a half of ground 
valued at $125,000 as a site for the new institution. From 
Mr. Field two and a half additional blocks were afterward pur- 
chased. At the annual meeting of the Society, held in Chicago 



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in May, 1890, the Board of the Society adopted articles of in- 
corporation and a charter for the new institution. September 10, 
1890, the University of Chicago was incorporated by John D. 
Rockefeller, E. Nelson Blake, Marshall Field, Fred T. Gates, 
Francis E. Hinckley, and Thomas W. Goodspeed. The name 
of the corporation is ''The University of Chicago." The fol- 
lowing Trustees were chosen: E. Nelson Blake, first President 
of the Board, Edward Goodman, Herman H. Kohlsaat, 
George C. Walker, WilHam R. Harper, Andrew MacLeish, 
Martin A. Ryerson, Henry A. Rust, Alonzo K. Parker, Joseph 
M. Bailey, Charles C. Bowen, Charles L. Hutchinson, Frederick 
A. Smith, George A. Pillsbury, Ferdinand W. Peck, Daniel 
L. Shorey, Francis E. Hinckley, John W. Midgley, EU B. 
Felsenthal, Elmer L. Corthell, and Charles W. Needham. 
At the first meeting of the Board after incorporation Pro- 
fessor William Rainey Harper, of Yale University, was chosen 
President. 

Before Professor Harper accepted the presidency the scope 
of the proposed foundation was greatly enlarged by the deter- 
mination to found, not a college, but a university. To assist in 
making this possible Mr. Rockefeller, in September, 1890, added 
$1,000,000 to his former subscription. In accordance with the 
conditions of this second gift the Baptist Union Theological 
Seminary at Morgan Park became the Divinity School of the 
University, and of the amount subscribed by Mr. Rockefeller 
the sum of $100,000 was devoted to the erection of buildings 
for the Divinity School. 

President Harper took up the duties of his office July i, 1891. 

July II, 1 89 1, the trustees of the estate of William B. 
Ogden, a former mayor of the city, determined that 70 per cent 
of that portion of the estate to be devoted to benevolent pur- 
poses should be given to the University of Chicago. More than 
half a million dollars has thus been realized for ''The Ogden 
Graduate School of Science of the University of Chicago." 



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The erection of the first buildings of the University began 
November 26, 1891, on the east side of ElHs Avenue between 
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets. 

In February, 1892, the Founder presented to the Univer- 
sity for the further endowment of instruction $1,000,000. 
About the same time Sidney A. Kent, of Chicago, undertook 
to provide a fully equipped laboratory of chemistry. In 
March, 1892, Marshall Field subscribed $100,000 toward a 
building and equipment fund on the condition that $1,000,000 
be raised in ninety days, his own gift and Mr. Kent's being 
included in that fund. After a strenuous campaign during a 
time of financial stress the money was successfully secured. 
For the most part the amount was made up of large sums from 
generous Chicagoans and designated for particular buildings: 
Silas B. Cobb, $165,000; Martin A. Ryerson, $200,000; 
George C. Walker, $130,000; Mrs. Nancy Foster, $60,000; 
Mrs. Henrietta Snell, $50,000; Mrs. Mary Beecher, $50,000; 
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Kelly, $50,000. In June, 1892, Martin A. 
Ryerson was elected President of the Board of Trustees, a 
position which he has held ever since. October i, 1892, the 
first public exercises were held at 12:30 p.m. and the work of 
instruction began in Cobb Hall, the only building except the 
Graduate and Divinity dormitories then ready for occupancy. 
October 25 Charles T. Yerkes, of Chicago, offered to erect 
an Astronomical Observatory, and on November 7, 1892, 
Mr. Ryerson agreed to erect a Physical Laboratory. The first 
number of the Journal of Political Economy was issued Novem- 
ber 12 of that year — the first of the departmental publications 
issued by the University. In December, 1892, Mr. Rockefeller 
made a subscription of $1,000,000 for endowment. 

January i, 1893, the First Quarterly Convocation was held 
in Central Music Hall. In February Mr. Ryerson announced 
that he would give $100,000 toward a fund for general equip- 
ment on condition that $400,000 more were raised. This was 



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done during the ensuing months. On June 29 Mr. Rockefeller 
gave $150,000 for current expenses and on October 31 he pre- 
sented an additional $500,000. 

In 1894 Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell gave $100,000 for the 
erection of Haskell Oriental Museum and an additional fund for 
the endowment of the Haskell and Barrows lectureships on 
Comparative Religion. 

On July I, 1895, ^r- Rockefeller gave $175,000 for current 
expenses. October 30 Mr. Rockefeller presented $1,000,000 
for endowment, agreeing at the same time to duplicate gifts to 
the amount of $2,000,000. On December 14, 1895, Miss Helen 
Culver, of Chicago, gave $1,000,000 for buildings and equip- 
ment, "the whole gift to be devoted to the increase and spread 
of knowledge within the field of the Biological Sciences." 

July I, 1896, the University held the Quinquennial Cele- 
bration of the founding. The Founder himself visited the 
institution on that occasion. 

January 30, 1898, Miss Helen Culver gave $143,100 for the 
Biological Departments. On the first of July Mr. Rockefeller 
gave $200,000 for current expenses. In this year also Mrs. 
Emmons Blaine, of this city, made possible the opening of the 
College for Teachers by promising $5,000 a year for five years. 
It was in this year also that the Rush Medical College was 
affihated. 

December 6, 1900, Mr. Rockefeller gave $1,500,000 for 
endowment and general expenses. 

March 19, 1901, the President announced a gift of Mrs. 
Emmons Blaine whereby, through the union of the Chicago 
Institute, South Side Academy, and the Chicago Manual Train- 
ing School, a School of Education was estabhshed in Emmons 
Blaine Hall. On June 14 began the Decennial Celebration, 
during which cornerstones were laid for the following buildings : 
Charles Hitchcock Hall, for which Mrs. Charles Hitchcock, of 
Chicago, gave $150,000, January i, 1900; Hutchinson Hall, 



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presented by Charles L. Hutchinson, Treasurer of the Uni- 
versity from the beginning; Mitchell Tower, funds for which 
were given by John J. Mitchell, of Chicago; Leon Mandel 
Assembly Hall, presented by the Chicago merchant whose 
name it bears; the Reynolds Club, funds for which were pro- 
vided by the estate of Joseph Reynolds; the University Press 
Building, provided by the Founder. In the autumn of the 
same year the cornerstone of the Frank Dickinson Bartlett 
Gymnasium, a gift of A. C. Bartlett, of Chicago, was laid. 
December i of this year Mr. Rockefeller gave $1,250,000 for 
endowment and general expenses. 

In October, 1902, the Law School was organized. 

January 10, 1906, President William Rainey Harper, who 
had served as President from the beginning, died. Harry Pratt 
Judson, who had been closely associated with him as Dean of 
the Faculties, was made Acting President. 

February 20, 1907, Harry Pratt Judson was elected Presi- 
dent. 

The chief contributor to the University has been the 
Founder. He has presented to the University of Chicago 
almost thirty-five million dollars. In presenting his final gift 
of $10,000,000, December 13, 1910, he requested that $1,500,000 
of the gift be used for the erection and furnishing of the Univer- 
sity Chapel; the remainder, as far as practicable, for endow- 
ment. The following is a part of Mr. Rockefeller's letter 
of gift addressed to the Trustees : 

It is far better that the University be supported and enlarged by 
the gifts of many than by those of a single donor. This I have 
recognized from the beginning, and, accordingly, have sought to 
assist you in enlisting the interest and securing the contributions of 
many others, at times by making my own gifts conditional on the 
gifts of others, and at times by aiding you by means of unconditional 
gifts to make the University as widely useful, worthy, and attractive 
as possible. Most heartily do I recognize and rejoice in the generous 



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response of the citizens of Chicago and the West . Their contributions 
to the resources of the University have been, I beheve, more than 
seven milHon dollars. It might perhaps be difficult to find a parallel 
to generosity so large and widely distributed as this, exercised in 
behalf of an institution so recently founded. I desire to express my 
appreciation also of the extraordinary wisdom and fidelity which you, 
as President and Trustees, have shown in conducting the affairs of 
the University. In the multitude of students so quickly gathered, in 
the high character of the instruction, in the variety and extent of 
original research, in the valuable contributions to human knowledge, 
in the uplifting influence of the University as a whole upon education 
throughout the West, my highest hopes have been far exceeded. It 
is these considerations, with others, that move me to sum up in a 
single and final gift, distributing its payment over a period of many 
years to come, such further contributions as I have purposed to make 
the University. The sum I now give is intended to make provision, 
with such gifts as may reasonably be expected from others, for such 
added buildings, equipment, and endowment as the departments 
thus far established will need. This gift completes the task which 
I have set before myself. The founding and support of new depart- 
ments or the development of the varied and alluring fields of applied 
science, including medicine, I leave to the wisdom of the Trustees as 
funds may be furnished for these purposes by other friends of the 
University. 

In making an end to my gifts to the University, as I now do, and 
in withdrawing from the Board of Trustees my personal representa- 
tives, whose resignations I inclose, I am acting on an early and perma- 
nent conviction that this great institution, being the property of the 
people, should be controlled, conducted, and supported by the people, 
in whose generous efforts for its upbuilding I have been permitted 
simply to co-operate ; and I could wish to consecrate anew to the great 
cause of education the funds which I have given, if that were possible; 
to present the institution a second time, in so far as I have aided in 
founding it, to the people of Chicago and the West; and to express 
my hope that under their management and with their generous sup- 
port the University may be an increasing blessing to them, to their 
children, and to future generations. 



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The interest of citizens of Chicago in the University is 
proved by the names of the buildings, each bearing that of its 
donor — a Chicagoan. Lesser gifts also illustrate the response 
of the city to the trust conveyed by the Founder. Some 
twenty-two hundred subscribers — most of them residents of 
Chicago — contributed toward the erection of the William 
Rainey Harper Memorial Library, which was dedicated at the 
June Convocation in 1 9 1 2 . In this and succeeding years the con- 
tinuing interest of Chicago was shown when in 19 12 Mr. Ryer- 
son caused the Ryerson Physical Laboratory to be enlarged at 
a cost of $200,000, and Julius Rosenwald presented $250,000, a 
sum used for the erection of Rosenwald Hall. 

In 19 13 a grandstand and wall around the athletic field were 
completed at a cost of more than $200,000. In this year at 
the June Convocation was announced the gift of $300,000 of 
Mr. La Verne Noyes, another Chicagoan, for the erection of 
a Clubhouse, Commons, and Gymnasium for women, to be 
called, in memory of his wife, Ida Noyes Hall. Later Mr. Noyes 
increased his gift to the sum of $490,000. 

A bequest of Mrs. EHzabeth G. Kelly provided the Hiram 
Kelly Memorial Fund, instrumental in erecting the Classics 
Building, opened in the spring of 1915. 

In March, 19 16, the President announced a gift of $200,000 
for a theological building, ground for which was broken at the 
time of the Quarter- Centennial celebration. 

On February 13, 191 7, was received a gift of $50,000 from 
Mrs. Joseph Bond to erect a chapel for the Theological School 
in memory of her husband, Joseph Bond, who was at one time 
a trustee of the Divinity School. 

. In October, 1916, the General Education Board and the 
Rockefeller Foundation each voted to contribute $1,000,000 to 
the endowment of medical work at the University of Chicago. 
In addition to these two millions it became necessary for the 
University to secure $3,300,000. The sum of $5,461,500 was 



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raised within six months. The plans for the medical school 
are outlined on page 128. 

In July, 19 1 8, Mr. La Verne Noyes established ''the La 
Verne Noyes Foundation" by deeding to the University property 
valued at $1,500,000, one-fifth of the income from which may 
be used for teaching American history or the pubHc duties of 
citizenship. The remainder must be used for the payment 
of tuition of deserving students who shall themselves have 
served in the war, into which the republic entered on the sixth 
day of April, 191 7, or who shall be descendants by blood of 
anyone in service in the army or navy of the United States in 
that war. 

The contrasts of conditions in 1891 and in 19 19 are interest- 
ing. In twenty-eight years the University of Chicago has 
grown from a college with a site of some seventeen acres with 
four prospective buildings to a university with a city site of 
almost one hundred acres (the observatory site at Lake Geneva 
is seventy or more acres), on which are more than forty build- 
ings. The structures of 1892 were valued at $400,000; those of 
1919 at $6,740,450.02. In 1891-92 assets actually in hand 
amounted to about $700,000; in 19 19 the University assets, 
including gifts pledged, were approximately $50,000,000. The 
annual expenditures of the first year were about $350,000; 
in 1918-19, $2,179,605. When the University opened, the 
Faculty numbered 120; in 19 19, about 450. During the three 
quarters of the first year 742 students were registered; in 
1916-17, during four quarters, 10,448 different students were 
in residence. During the twenty-eight years more than 80,000 
students have matriculated. Of alumni there were in 1919, 
12,141. 



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GENERAL SUGGESTIONS TO VISITORS 

What to See. The physical equipment of the University 
will naturally first engage attention, especially the artistic 
adaptation of English collegiate Gothic architecture to the 
purposes of a modern university. Within the buildings the 
collections of the museums and libraries and the equipment 
of the laboratories can be studied. The observation of instruc- 
tion and research, however, is for obvious reasons restricted. 
The nature of the research is on the whole best appreciated by 
examination of the President's Report. 

Time to Visit. Because the University year is divided into 
four quarters the institution can be satisfactorily visited at 
any time during the year, except in September, when repairs 
and alterations are in progress. During examination days at 
the end of each quarter and during the succeeding holiday week 
the quadrangles lose their usual lively character. The several 
quarters also differ among themselves : notably distinctive is the 
Summer Quarter, which is one when the buildings throng with 
teachers and college professors from all over the country who 
then come to pursue regular courses. In some ways the Sum- 
mer Quarter, because of this character and because of the liberal 
provision of open lectures and concerts, is especially interesting. 
To study the conventional student activities, however, one 
should choose to visit in the autumn, winter, or spring. On 
Sundays and University holidays no recitations are held and 
many of the buildings are closed. On Saturday very few reci- 
tations are in progress. On Monday the classes are chiefly those 
of the Junior Colleges. The college day begins at 8:00 a.m. 
Most of the recitations are in the morning, with an interval at 



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noon, the chapel hour. The afternoon recitations are less 
numerous; the late afternoon is used especially for seminars. 
University Public Lectures are usually at 4:00 p.m. The 
libraries and some of the laboratories are open in the evening; 
but no instruction is given in the evening. 

The Route. The buildings are described in an order which 
will permit visiting all of them with the least possible waste of 
time and strength. The route may be easily understood by refer- 
ence to the list on pages 20-21, the numbers in which correspond 
with numbers attached to the descriptive sections of the guide. 
The numbers in parentheses refer to the key map on the inside 
front cover. To visit all the numbered places without inspect- 
ing interiors will require two hours and a walk of approximately 
five miles. Each visitor can satisfy his own special interests by 
simply omitting sections. Most visitors, however, will wish to 
include Cobb Lecture Hall, Charles Hitchcock Hall, Hutchinson 
Hall, the Reynolds Club, Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium, 
Walker Museum, JuHus Rosenwald Hall, the Law Building, 
William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, Haskell Oriental 
Museum, the Classics Building, Nancy Foster Hall, Ida Noyes 
Hall, Emmons Blaine Hall. Two hours will suffice for a visit 
including these structures. If only a few minutes can be given to 
the interiors of buildings, these should be the ones chosen: Harper, 
LaW; Hutchinson, the Reynolds Club, and Ida Noyes Hall. 

The Information Office in Cobb Lecture Hall, opposite 
the main entrance, distributes University official publications, 
maintains a register of all students and members of the faculties 
in residence, answers general questions about trains, hotels, etc. 

Public Telephones are at the Information Office and in each 
of the buildings. 

Guides. Guides — students in the University — will be 
furnished gladly without cost. Application should be made 
at the Information Office in Cobb Lecture Hall or the Cashier's 
Office in the Press Building. 



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Retiring Rooms for men and for women are in all University 
buildings. 

Refreshments. Visitors are welcome to take luncheon in 
the University Commons. Men are admitted to Hutchinson 
Hall; women to Ida Noyes Hall; both men and women are 
admitted to the dining-room in Emmons Blaine Hall. Hours 
of service are: Hutchinson: 7:00-9:00 a.m.; 11:15 a.m.- 
1:15 P.M.; 6:00-7:00 P.M.; Ida Noyes Hall: 7:00-9:00 a.m.; 
11:30 A.M.-2:oo P.M.; 6:00-7:00 P.M.; Emmons Blaine Hall: 
11:30 A.M.-i:30 P.M. 

The Visiting of Classes is, because of the large number of 
visitors in a city like Chicago, necessarily subject to restriction. 
Those seriously desirous of visiting certain recitations may 
secure permits from the Dean of the Faculties, whose of&ce is 
in Cobb Lecture Hall. 

Guide Books, Post Cards, and Souvenirs are sold in the 
University Bookstore in Ellis Hall. All University publica- 
tions are available here. 

"The Weekly Calendar,** posted on the bulletin boards in 
all buildings, contains announcements of University Public 
Lectures, the University Religious Services, and other meetings 
of interest to the visitor. 

Photographs of the buildings and grounds may freely be 
made. Permission to photograph interiors may be secured 
from the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, whose office 
is in the Press Building. 



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GENERAL INFORMATION 

The Organization of the University includes four divisions: 
the Schools and Colleges; University Extension; the Uni- 
versity Libraries, Laboratories, and Museums; the University 
Press. 

The Schools and Colleges include (a) the Graduate School 
of Arts and Literature; the Ogden Graduate School of Science; 
the Divinity School; the Law School; the Medical Courses 
(in co-operation with Rush Medical College); the School of 
Education, and the School of Commerce and Administration; 
and (b) the Colleges of Arts, of Literature, of Science, of Phi- 
losophy, of Commerce and Administration, of Education; Uni- 
versity College. Each of the colleges is divided into a Junior 
College and a Senior College. The former includes the first 
half of the curriculum, ordinarily known as the work of the 
Freshman and Sophomore classes, and the latter the second half, 
ordinarily known as the work of the Junior and Senior classes. 

The University Extension directs work done by students 
unable to attend exercises held at the University. 

The University Libraries, Laboratories, and Museums 
include the General Library and all departmental libraries, the 
General Museum and all special museums, and the laboratories 
of the University. 

The University Press includes the Manufacturing Depart- 
ment and the Publication Department. 

Affiliated with the University are the Rush Medical 
College, the Chicago Theological Seminary, and Ryder Divinity 
House. Allied with the Divinity School are the Disciples 
Divinity House and the Norwegian Baptist Divinity House. 



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Finance. From the founding of the University to June 30, 
1919, the total amount of gifts paid in is $48,624,360.28. For 
an account of individual gifts see the Historical Sketch. On 
June 30, 1919, the sum of $28,327,083.53 was devoted to endow- 
ment. The income from the Endowment Fund provided 58 . 6 
per cent of the total budget receipts for the year 19 18-19; from 
students' tuition and other fees, 34 . i per cent. The largest 
item of budget expenditure during this period was instruction, 
being 44 . 4 per cent of the total. The investment in buildings 
and grounds June 30, 1919, was $11,427,245.50. 

Tuition Fee. The regular fee for three-major courses in 
Arts, Literature, and Science and in the College of Education is 
$50 per quarter. All students pay once a matriculation fee of 
$5. In Law and Medicine the fees are $50 and $60. 

Cost of Living. In the residence halls rooms rent for from 
$25 to $75 per quarter. The charge for board in the women's halls 
is $5 . 50 per week. Service in the men's Commons is a la carte. 

The University Year is divided into quarters: the Autumn 
(October, November, December); the Winter (January, 
February, March); the Spring (April, May, to the middle of 
June); the Summer (latter half of June, July, August). Stu- 
dents are admitted at the beginning of each quarter; gradua- 
tion exercises are held at the end of each quarter. 

Attendance. During the year 1916-17 there were 10,448 
students in residence, of whom about half were women. From 
the city of Chicago come 34.8 per cent of the students and 
from the state of Illinois (including Chicago) 47.2 per cent. 
The general geographical distribution is: United States, 98.0 
percent; North Atlantic Division, 3 . i ; South Atlantic Divi- 
sion, 2.7; South Central Division, 11. 2; North Central 
Division, 77.0; Western Division, 3.5; foreign countries 
(twenty-eight in number), 2 . o. 



AN OFFICIAL GUIDE 15 



THE SITE 

When the estabhshment of a new Chicago institution of 
learning was first proposed, many suggestions were made as 
to its location. A beautiful site in Morgan Park was offered. 
But from the beginning was felt the strength of the now widely 
accepted principle that a university must be in a center of 
population and wealth. From the beginning it was agreed 
that the University must be within the city of Chicago. 

Between Washington Park and Jackson Park and north 
of the Midway Plaisance, itself a park connecting the other 
two, there was in 1890 a low-lying, sandy region through which 
ran from northeast to southwest one of the ridges of an old 
lake-shore line. On this ridge and on some of the hummocks 
between slimy frog ponds were scrub oaks. Of this land, close 
to the site of the World's Fair of 1893, Marshall Field offered 
one and one-half city blocks, between Ellis and Greenwood 
avenues from 59th Street to 56th Street. In 189 1 one 
block was exchanged for an adjoining block to the east and 
an additional square was purchased; and the City Council 
vacated the portions of 58th Street and Greenwood Avenue 
faUing within this space. So were formed the original central 
quadrangles. Possession of such a site at once made it possible 
for the trustees to plan the erection of buildings. 

In 1892 the lots at the northwest corner of 58th Street and 
Ellis Avenue were acquired. In 1893 to John Johnston Jr.'s 
gift of 53 acres as a site for the observatory at WiUiams Bay, 
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, about 17 acres were added by pur- 
chase. In 1894 the lots at the northeast corner of 59th Street 
and University Avenue became University property. In 1898 
Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Field presented land used for an athletic 



l6 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

field. In 1901 Mr. Rockefeller presented the west half of the 
block between EUis and Ingleside and between 57 th and 58th 
streets. Mr. Ryerson presented most of the east half of 
the same block. Mr. Rockefeller also presented at this time the 
entire block to the south between 58th and 59th streets. The 
trustees also bought in this year 300 feet at the corner of 57th 
Street and University Avenue. In 1901-2 was acquired the 
Scammon property between 58th aTid 59th streets and Ken- 
wood and Kimbark avenues. 

In the meantime Mr. Rockefeller privately bought all the 
property fronting south on the Midway for a distance of about 
three-quarters of a mile. In 1903 he continued his private 
buying until he owned the entire south frontage of the Midway 
from Cottage Grove Avenue to Dorchester Avenue. Mr. 
Rockefeller by presenting to the University this land, for which 
he had paid $3,229,775, gave to the institution the entire front- 
age on both sides of the Midway Plaisance from Cottage Grove 
Avenue to Dorchester Avenue. 

The indigenous scrub oaks have been carefully cherished, 
particularly through the devotion of the late Judge Daniel 
Shorey, a trustee of the University. As they die out, however, 
they are replaced by elms planted in accordance with the land- 
scape scheme designed by Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, 
Massachusetts. The old lake shore is, of course, sand : so for each 
tree it is necessary to dig a hole twenty-five feet square into 
which is dumped black earth from the Illinois prairies. 

The central quadrangles, the original site, included 17 acres. 
The present campus, not including the 70 acres at WiUiams 
Bay, comprises about 100 acres. 



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STUDY FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BY HENRY IVES COBB (1893) 



THE UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE 

Before any building was provided the trustees decided 
that there must be a well-considered building plan. The pos- 
session of a compact city site afforded the architect, Henry 
Ives Cobb, an opportunity to lay out the physical equipment 
of the new institution. Early newspaper sketches show that 
the style originally discussed was Romanesque. Not entirely 
satisfied with this, the Committee on Buildings and Grounds 
agreed with Mr. Cobb on a form of late English Gothic. The 
architect then sketched the disposition of buildings in the cen- 
tral quadrangles, a scheme departed from in many important 
particulars. Mr. Cobb designed all buildings erected before 
1900. Except Hitchcock Hall, planned by Dwight H. Perkins, 
Emmons Blaine Hall, by James Gamble Rogers, and Rosenwald 
Hall, by Holabird & Roche, the buildings since 1900 have been 
designed by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge. Many of their build- 
ings, as noted in connection with each structure, have been 
inspired by famous originals in Oxford and Cambridge. This 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 




AN OFFICIAL GUIDE 19 

firm also planned in accordance with the wishes of the library 
commission the entire library group. The several changes in 
the shape of the site have of course affected the disposition 
of the buildings. The acquisition of the entire north and 
south sides of the Midway Plaisance from Cottage Grove 
Avenue to Dorchester Avenue made the Midway the principal 
axis of the University and has determined the decision to place 
the Chapel, not in the central quadrangles, as originally pro- 
posed, but on the Midway between Woodlawn and University 
avenues, so that it may architecturally dominate all the Uni- 
versity buildings. 

But yester-eve here closed the prairie flower 

Whose trivial beauty is forgot today. 
The plain has blossomed into hall and tower, 

And viewless dreams are visible in gray. 
The granite chapter of romance is told, 

And these enchantments by the morning kissed 
Reveal the theme of all the future tones 
And music manifold. 

Last touch of magic, see the tender mist 
Of delicate ivy stealing up the stones. 

— "Mater Humanissima: An Ode for the Fifteenth 
Anniversary," by E. H. Lewis, Ph.D., 1894. 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 



THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 

The route numbers agree with the numbered sections in the 
text. The numbers in parentheses refer to the key map on the front 
inside cover. 



Route 
Num- 
ber 



I 
2 
3 

4 
5 
6 

7 
8 

9 

lO 

II 

12 

13 
14 

15 
i6 

17 
i8 

19 

20 
21 

22 

23 
24 

25 
26 

27 
28 



Building 



Cobb Lecture Hall (i) 

North HaU (2) 

Middle Divinity HaU (3) • • • • 

South Divinity Hall (4) 

EUis Hall (19) 

Botany Greenhouses 

Power House (22) 

Press Building (21) 

Psychological Laboratory (34) 

Howard Taylor Ricketts Laboratory (40) . 

Kent Chemical Laboratory (5) 

Ryerson Physical Laboratory (6) 

Ryerson Physical Laboratory Addition . . 

SneU Hall (7) 

Charles Hitchcock Hall (20) 

Hull Biological Laboratories: 

Physiology Building (15) 

Anatomy Building (16) 

Zoology Building (17) 

Botany Building (18) 

Tower Group: 

Hutchinson Hall (25) 

Reynolds Club (26) 

Mitchell Tower (27) 

Leon Mandel Assembly Hall (28) 

Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium (31) 
Athletic Grandstand: Stagg Field (37) ... 

Walker Museum (12) 

Julius Rosen wald Hall (39) 

Law School Building (29) 

William Rainey Harper Memorial Library 

(36) 



Date 
Erected 



1892 

1901 
1914 
1902-4 
1903 
1908 
1914 
1893 
1893 
1912 

1893 
1902 



1897 



1903 

1903 
1912 

1893 
1914 
1903 

1912 



Cost 



$221,956.03 

172,805.72 

24,983 . 89 

2,802.60 

456,402.08 

105,851.72 

22,500.00 

59,560.71 

202,270. 19 

200,371.41 

143,537-06 

53,586.41 
150,499.08 



325,000.00 



424,085.15 



237,984 
256,549 
109,275 

304,970 
248,652 



708,698.58 



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21 



BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS— Continued 



Route 

Num- 
ber 



29 
30 

31 
32 
33 
34 
35 
36 
37 
38 
39 
40 

41 
42 



Building 



Haskell Oriental Museum (14) 

Classics Building: Hiram Kelly Memorial 

(38) 

Greenwood Hall 

Nancy Foster Hall (8) 

KeUy Hall (10) 

Green HaU (11) 

Beecher Hall (9) 

Lexington Hall (30) 

President's House (13) 

Ida Noyes Hall (41) 

Emmons Blaine Hall (24) 

High School Gymnasium (23) 

Kimbark Hall (35) 

Henry Holmes Belfield Hall (32) 

Williams Bay, Wisconsin: 

Director's Residence 

Professor's Residence 

Yerkes Observatory 

Power and Heating Plant 

Snow Building 

Bruce Building 

Zoology Greenhouse 



Date 
Erected 



1896 
1914 

1909 
1893 
1893 
1898 

1893 
1903 

1895 
1916 
1903 
1902 
1909 
1903 

1896 
1896 

1897 

1904 
1903 
1913 



Cost 



$103,017.49 
285,448.03 

25,300.52 

83,432.90 

62,149.21 

72,000.00 

62,126.05 

50,000 . 00 

40,000 . 00 

461,291.27 

394,510.76 

10,000 . 00 

28,614.00 

220,128.84 

7,508.33 
4,099.10 

339,699.05 

1,500.00 
5,000.00 
7,679.99 



I. COBB LECTURE HALL (i) 

When ground was first broken, November 26, 1891, for the 
erection of buildings, it was for a lecture hall and three dormi- 
tories at the corner of Ellis Avenue and 59th Street. For the 
first-named building, during the campaign to raise a million 
dollars in ninety days, a gift was received from Silas B. Cobb. 
Mr. Cobb, a native of Vermont, left Montpelier in April, 1833, 
and arrived at Fort Dearborn on May 29 of the same year. 
From that time until his death he lived in Chicago. Every 
building standing in Chicago during his lifetime, as he was fond 
of saying, had been erected during his residence. In presenting 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 




COBB LECTURE HALL 



a building to the University he wrote: ''As my years increase, 
the desire grows upon me to do something for the city which 
has been my home for nearly sixty years." A marble portrait 
bust of Silas B. Cobb by Lorado Taft is on the wall at the foot 
of the stairs. 

Cobb Lecture Hall, designed by Henry Ives Cobb, was 
occupied September i, 1892. At the opening of the University, 
October i, 1892, students entered the building over temporary 
boards and under the scaffolding on which worked stonecutters 
carving the name of the structure. From that time until the 
present, Cobb has been the center of student academic activities. 
In the beginning the sixty rooms were arranged in departmental 
suites around central departmental libraries; the President's 
office and the faculty room were in the southeast corner of the 
first floor; and the space occupied now by administrative offices 



AN OFFICIAL GUIDE 23 

was a single room which served as a chapel. It was in this 
room that the first public exercise of the University was held 
at 12:30P.M., October i, 1892. Every year since, on the 
opening day of the Autumn Quarter, has been held the anni- 
versary chapel service. 

On the first floor opposite the main entrance is the office 
of the Dean of Medical Students. To the left is the University 
College office, used also by the University Lecture Association 
and the University Orchestral Association. Cobb Lecture 
Room (12A) is next to the south, a room used for large classes 
and for University public lectures. The room in the southeast 
corner, at first used as the President's office, is the headquarters 
of the Correspondence-Study Department. In this department 
during the year 1918-19, 411 courses were pursued by 4,415 
students with 124 instructors. Work done through this means 
is to a limited extent credited toward a baccalaureate degree, 
but in no case is a degree given without the requisite amount 
of resident study. Adjacent are the offices of the Dean of 
Women. Room i and all the rooms on the east side of the 
north half of this floor are devoted to the work of the Recorder 
and Examiner. All applicants for admission are here inter- 
viewed by the representatives of the Examiner, and the records 
of admission credits and acquired college credits are kept 
here. Information about the system may be secured from the 
Recorder or Assistant Recorder. The west side of the north 
half of this floor is given over to the offices of the Dean of 
the Faculties, the Dean of the Graduate Schools of Arts and 
Literature, the Dean of the Ogden Graduate School of Science, 
the Dean in the Colleges of Science, and the Dean of the 
Junior Colleges. 

On the second floor is, to the right, a waiting-room for 
women. Formerly the German and Romance departments had 
offices at the south end of this corridor, while the north was 
devoted to the Classics departmental library and seminar rooms. 



24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

At present these rooms are used by the Dean of the School of 
Commerce and Administration. 

The third floor was formerly the headquarters of the 
Department of History. The departmental library and reci- 
tation rooms were here, as were the office and seminar of the 
first head of the department, Hermann Eduard von Hoist, and 
his colleagues. Now the offices on this floor are those of the 
Departments of Romance and English. 

The top floor, originally given over to the Divinity School, 
is devoted to offices and classrooms. The suite of rooms in the 
southeast corner, the English Office, has been used by Robert 
Herrick, Robert Morss Lovett, William Vaughn Moody, and 
a long succession of teachers of English composition. The north 
room, formerly the English departmental library, is now used 
by the Alumni Secretary. 

College classes very early established the custom of pre- 
senting to the University some memorial of the class. At the 
entrance to Cobb, so familiar to undergraduates, have been 
placed bulletin boards by the Class of 1906, ornamental lamps 
by the Class of 1907, a "C bench by the Class of 1903, and 
the Senior Bench by the Class of 1896. 

2. NORTH (OR GRADUATE) HALL (2) 

North (or Graduate) Hall, which stands next to Cobb, is a 
residence hall for forty-six men, chiefly graduate students. In 
years past North Hall has been the home of Stephen Leacock 
and of Wilham Vaughn Moody. 

3. MIDDLE DIVINITY HALL (3) 

Middle Divinity Hall, the large central building between 
North Hall and South Divinity, is a residence hall for ninety- 
two men in the Divinity School. 



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25 




DIVINITY AND GRADUATE HALLS 



4. SOUTH DIVINITY HALL (4) 

South Divinity Hall is a residence hall for forty-six Divinity 
students. Here are the headquarters of the Disciples Divinity 
House. 

THE GRADUATE QUADRANGLE 

The Graduate Quadrangle was so called even when inclosed 
only on the west side by Graduate Hall, Middle Divinity Hall, 
South Divinity Hall, and Cobb Lecture Hall. It was the scene 
of early out-of-door Convocations. 

5. ELLIS HALL (19) 

Ellis Hall, the one-story structure at the corner of 58th 
Street and Ellis Avenue — which gives the structure its name — 
was erected as a temporary home for the Chicago Institute 
when in 1901 it became a part of the University as its College 



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ELLlb ilALL 



of Teachers. After three years the School of Education was 
removed to its new home, Emmons Blaine Hall. The thirty 
rooms of Ellis Hall were then devoted to the instruction of 
Junior College men. Here, in addition to recitation rooms, are 
the offices of the Daily Maroon, the Cap and Gown, the Young 
Men's Christian Association, the Deans of Junior College men, 
a clubroom for employees of the University Press, the armory 
of the Department of Military Science and Tactics, and the 
University Bookstore. 

STUDENTS' OBSERVATORY 

The Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wisconsin (see 
p. 125), is devoted to research and to instruction of advanced stu- 
dents in astronomy and astrophysics. Within the quadrangles 
the department gives courses in descriptive astronomy, prelimi- 
nary training in principles and methods of practical astronomy, 
and graduate and research work in celestial mechanics. The 
observatory just west of Cobb Lecture Hall is equipped with a 
modern Warner and Swasey equatorial telescope of 6|-inch 



AN OFFICIAL GUIDE 27 

aperture which is provided with a filar micrometer, a 5-inch 
refractor, a 3-inch Bamberg transit instrument, a Riefier 
sidereal clock, and other accessories. 

6. THE GREENHOUSES 

The greenhouses of the Botany Department are temporarily 
located just west of Cobb Lecture Hall. In addition to speci- 
mens for use in classes the visitor will find a group of economic, 
medicinal, and other plants, including melon papaya, vanilla 
bean, coffee tree, tea, chocolate, grape fruit, lemon, and orange 
trees. Collections of plants from various parts of the world 
furnish the basis of special investigations, notably the collection 
of cycads and liverworts. Many experiments in physiology, 
ecology, and plant breeding are constantly in evidence. Other 
rare plants will interest the visitor. The permanent botanical 
gardens will be developed at Cottage Grove Avenue and 59th 
Street. 

DREXEL HOUSE 

Drexel House, a University dormitory for women, organized 
as a venture in co-operative housekeeping, is at 5845 Drexel 
Avenue. 

DIVINITY APARTMENTS 

A dormitory providing small suites for married divinity 
students is at 5815 Drexel Avenue. 

MISSIONARY APARTMENTS 

At 5829 Maryland Avenue furnished apartments are avail- 
able for missionaries. 

7. THE POWER HOUSE (22) 

The Power House, a long, low, narrow structure along the 
alley between 57th and 58th streets marked by a chimney 175 
feet high, was given in 1901 by the Founder of the University, 
who sent his own engineer to erect the structure. Previously 



28 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

the scattered buildings had been heated and lighted by indi- 
vidual plants adjacent to the several buildings. The power 
plant, completed in January, 1902, provides an area of 17,000 
square feet for the system of providing heat, light, and power 
for all the buildings, some of which are five city blocks away 
from the central plant. Here also is the filtration plant, water 
from Lake Michigan being filtered through sand and pumped 
to local iced coils for service. All drinking-fountains on the 
campus provide this water through hygienic fountains carefully 
watched by the University Health Officer. 

In Ingleside Avenue between 57 th and 58th streets and 
adjacent to the Power House is the warehouse. 

8. THE UNIVERSITY PRESS (21) 

The University Press Building at 58th Street and Ellis 
Avenue was erected with funds provided by the Founder of the 
University. The cornerstone was laid June 15, 1901, and the 
building was occupied October i, 1902. The structure was 
designed by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge. It is of red brick 
with Bedford stone trimmings and suggests such domestic 
Tudor architecture as that at Hampton Court. It is occupied 
not only by the University Press but by the Superintendent 
of Buildings and Grounds, the Secretary of the Board of Trus- 
tees, and the University Auditor. 

On the first floor to the left are the Information Office, the 
Student Employment Bureau, and the Faculty Exchange. The 
north room is occupied by the Cashier of the University and 
the Housing Bureau. Opposite the main door on the first floor 
is the entrance to the Office of the Superintendent of Buildings 
and Grounds. Beyond this ofiice is the pressroom. 

The basement of the building is used as a vault for the storing 
of plates of publications. On the second floor are the general 
offices of the University Press. On this floor the space to the 
north is occupied by the Auditor's Office and that of the Sec- 



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THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 



retary of the Board of Trustees. The west portion of this 
floor is occupied by the shipping division of the Press. The 
third floor is given over to the bindery, the editorial department, 
and the Press library. On the fourth floor are the composing 
room and the proofroom. 

The University Press is organized primarily to print and 
publish scientific and educational books, monographs, and 
journals, the scope of its activities being defined by the Board 
of Trustees. In general, the lines of its work consist of manu- 
facturing and pubHshing books and journals, retailing textbooks 
and supplies to the University community, and purchasing books 
for the libraries. It is organized in three departments: the 
Publication and Manufacturing Departments and the Bookstore, 
each under the supervision of a Manager appointed by the Board 
of Trustees. The control of publications is in the hands of a 
Board appointed by the Trustees from members of the Faculties. 



30 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 




RICKEITS LAHURATUR^ 

The manufacturing plant of the Press, which is equipped 
to do all kinds of printing and bookmaking, has for the more 
technical side of its work a large assortment of special accents 
and signs, and fonts of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, 
and Ethiopic t3T>e; a stereo t3T)ing foundry; seven monotype 
machines; job and cylinder presses; and a bindery equipped 
with the necessary machinery for the production of first-class 
bookwork. 

The scope of the Publication Department includes the 
business management of the various departmental journals, 
the publication of books and pamphlets, and the distribution 
of all official documents of the University. The list of book 
titles now numbers about 800, and twenty-six journals are 
regularly issued. The proceedings and papers of various 
scientific, educational, and historical societies are also 
published. 

The Press has regularly established stock depositories in 
New York, London, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and is the American 
agent for the periodicals and other scientific publications of the 
Cambridge University Press, London. 

9. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LABORATORIES (34) 

The Psychological Laboratories occupy two buildings: one 
at 5728 Ellis Avenue, devoted to work in human psychology, 
containing also the departmental library, offices, and class- 



AN OFFICIAL GUIDE 31 

rooms; and one at 5704 Ellis Avenue, devoted to the study of 
animal behavior. 

10. HOWARD TAYLOR RICKETTS LABORATORY (40) 

A bronze memorial tablet to the right of the entrance of the 
Ricketts Laboratory bears the following dedication: 

In Memory Of 
HOWARD TAYLOR RICKETTS 

1871 — 1910 

Assistant Professor of Pathology 

IN the 

University of Chicago 

WHOSE career, marked BY ENTHUSIASM 
AND RARE ABILITY IN MEDICAL RESEARCH, 
WAS CUT SHORT BY TYPHUS FEVER CON- 
TRACTED DURING HIS INVESTIGATION OF 
THAT DISEASE IN THE CITY OF MEXICO 

Room I opposite the entrance is a lecture-room seating one 
hundred and ten people and used by all the departments 
housed in the building. The south wing is devoted to pathology. 
Rooms 19 and 20 are general laboratories. Rooms 21, 23, 24, 
25 are research laboratories. Room 27 is the office and labora- 
tory of Professor H. G. Wells, who is also director of the Otho 
S. A. Sprague Institute. Rooms 28 and 29 are devoted to 
tuberculosis research. Room 34 is a museum and storeroom. 
There are also recitation rooms, offices, an animal house, and 
other rooms necessary for the work of the department. The 
north corridor is devoted to bacteriology and hygiene. Room 
2 is a preparation room. Room 4 is a chemistry room used 
by classes in the chemical examination of milk and water. 
Room 5 is an office and laboratory. Rooms 8, 9, and 10 compose 
the suite of Professor Edwin O. Jordan. There are in addition 
recitation rooms and private laboratories for advanced students, 
including the fellows appointed on the Mr. and Mrs. F. G. 
Logan Fellowship Foundation. 



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II. KENT CHEMICAL LABORATORY (5) 

In November, 1891, when the trustees of the new University 
were trying to raise a milhon dollars in ninety days, only one 
building, a divinity dormitory, had been provided for the new 
institution. Sidney A. Kent of Chicago, by presenting to the 
University for a chemical laboratory the sum of $150,000, "set 
the pace, "as the Chicago newspapers declared. The timeli- 
ness of the gift made it as notable as did its generosity — later 
increased by further gifts until Mr. Kent had presented for the 
building and its equipment and care some $235,000. The 
building, 176X64 feet, was designed by Henry Ives Cobb in 
conference with Professor Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins 
University, and set a high standard for all subsequent university 
laboratories. The building was dedicated at the fifth Convo- 
yocation, January i, 1894. 



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33 




KENT CHEMICAL LABORATORY AND KENT THEATER FROM HULL COURT 



On the right wall of the entrance is a bronze tablet by 
Lorado Taft including a portrait of Mr. Kent and the following 
inscription: 

THIS . BUILDING • IS • DEDICAT- 
ED . TO • A • FUNDAMENTAL . 
SCIENCE . IN . THE . HOPE . 
THAT . IT . WILL • BE . A • FOUN- 
DATION . STONE . LAID . 
BROAD . AND . DEEP . FOR . 
THE . TEMPLE • OF . KNOWL- 
EDGE . IN . WHICH . AS . WE 
LIVE . WE . HAVE . LIFE . 

Sidney A. Kent 

The basement contains a laboratory for research in physical 
and inorganic chemistry equipped with thermostats, electrical 
thermometric and other instruments of precision; a laboratory 
for inorganic preparations, a room fitted with steam and other 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 




KENT 



BOTANY 



RYERSON 



appliances for work on a large scale, a laboratory for radio- 
activity measurements, a mechanical workshop, and storage- 
rooms. 

On the first floor there is a large lecture-room at each end, 
with adjoining apparatus and preparation rooms. There are 
also two rooms for physico-chemical work, and a room with 
northern exposure especially fitted for work as a private research 
laboratory. 

On the second floor are two large laboratories intended for 
research and quantitative analysis; three private laboratories 
for professors, that of the chairman of the department, 
Professor Stieglitz, being Room 32; balance, combustion, and 
air-furnace rooms; a balcony for out-of-door work; and the 
chemical library. The late Professor J. U. Nef conducted his 
research in Room 25. 



AN OFFICIAL GUIDE 35 

On the third floor there are three large laboratories for 
general chemistry, elementary organic chemistry, and quali- 
tative analysis, a small lecture-room, a laboratory fitted for 
optical work, a balance-room, and three research laboratories. 

Kent Theater, the entrance to which is opposite the main 
door, seats five hundred and sixty persons and, until the erection 
of Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, was the largest meeting-room 
within the quadrangles. Here the University, celebrating 
Independence Day, received news of the Battle of Santiago; 
here President McKinley received at a special convocation 
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and here President 
Roosevelt also received the degree of LL.D. 

12. RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY (6) 

Ryerson Physical Laboratory is the gift of Martin A. 
Ryerson of Chicago in memory of his father, one of Chicago's 
earliest settlers, a lumber merchant who established his business 
in 1 85 1. He died in 1887. At the dedication of the laboratory 
his son in his tribute declared him to be "a man who in the 
struggle to overcome the material difficulties of life found 
intellectual growth and developed a tender thoughtfulness for 
the welfare of his fellow-men." Abroad when the campaign 
to raise a million dollars in ninety days began, Mr. Ryerson 
cabled $150,000. The building cost $200,037.41, to which 
Mr. Ryerson added money for equipment. The building, 
designed by Henry Ives Cobb, was completed January i, 1894. 
July 26, 19 10, Mr. Ryerson proposed to present $200,000 for 
improvement of the building and an addition to it. The new 
Ryerson Laboratory, planned by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, 
with space increased threefold, was dedicated in December, 

1913- 

The basement of the main building contains twelve research 
rooms of great stabiHty and possessing fair uniformity of tem- 
perature. Three of the rooms have been lined on floor, walls, 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 




RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY 



and ceiling with four inches of cork and provided with non- 
conducting doors. One of these rooms contains Professor 
Michelson's machines for the ruhng of diffraction gratings — 
work largely responsible for the conferring upon him of the 
Nobel prize in Physics, 1907. Two other rooms may be kept, 
one at 0° Fahrenheit and the other at 0° Centigrade, by a 
carbon-dioxide cooling-plant. These rooms and two others 
directly above them on the first floor may also be kept abso- 
lutely free from all moisture. Such rooms are greatly desired 
for work involving the use of delicate electrometers; for 
example, the work of Professor Millikan in the study of 
ions — work which gained for him in 19 13 the Comstock Prize 
of the National Academy of Sciences. The rooms at the east 
end are used by Professors Gale and Lemon for spectroscopic 
work. In the basement of the annex is the ventilating system, 



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RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY FROM HULL COURT 



a large laboratory for general work, a high-temperature room 
and a low-temperature room, a carpenter shop, a liquid-air 
plant, and a carbon-dioxide cooling-plant. 

The first floor of the annex contains, in addition to a stu- 
dents' workshop, a laboratory, a machine and instrument shop 
with stockrooms, a dynamo and motor room, a switchboard- 
room and a small electrical laboratory. The rooms on the 
first floor of the main buildings are given over to research. In 
Room 3 Professor Millikan is conducting experiments in photo- 
electricity; Room 4 is Professor Michelson's laboratory; Room 1 2 
is where Professor Millikan's oil-drop experiments with ions 
continue; Professor Gale uses the east room for his work in 
optics. 

On the second floor of the annex is a laboratory 30X60 for 
electrical testing, a small lecture-room, a dark room, and a 



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storage-battery room. 
On the second floor of the 
main building is the office 
of the director, labora- 
tories for heat, sound, and 
light (at west end), and 
the departmental library, 
a lecture-room with ad- 
joining apparatus, and 
preparation rooms. 

The third floor of the 
addition is devoted to the 
laboratory work in ele- 
mentary physics. The 
third floor of the main 
building provides space 
for an elementary-physics 

laboratory and for offices and classrooms for the Department 

of Astronomy. 

The fifth floor is used for the library of the Department of 

Mathematics and for offices. 




SNELL HALL 



13. SNELL HALL (7) 

Snell Hall, a residence hall for men, was erected by Mrs. 
A. J. Snell of Chicago as a memorial to her husband. When 
in April, 1893, this hall, designed by Henry Ives Cobb, was 
ready for occupancy it was given over to Dean Talbot and 
women students who had been living in rented quarters in a 
57th Street apartment house. The following autumn it passed 
to its permanent possessors — undergraduate men. From the 
beginning Snell Hall became a college social center. In early 
years the clubroom in the basement served for all such pur- 
poses as the Reynolds Club and Ida Noyes Hall later satisfied. 



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CHARLES HITCHCOCK HALL 



The Head of the House, a young member of the Faculties, has 
his suite of rooms on the second floor. 



14. HITCHCOCK HALL (20) 

Charles Hitchcock Hall, at 57th Street and EUis Avenue, 
is a residence hall for men. Charles Hitchcock was born in 
Plymouth County, Massachusetts, April 4, 1827. He was a 
descendant of Luke Hitchcock, who left England in 1644 and 
settled in New Haven. Mr. Hitchcock's great-grandfather 
was Rev. Gad Hitchcock, famous as the minister who before 
the British Governor, General Gage, in an election sermon 
boldly arraigned the British government for its treatment of 
the colonies and made an eloquent plea for liberty. After 
graduation from Dartmouth College and the Dane Law School 
(of Harvard), Charles Hitchcock settled in Chicago, where he 



40 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

established a reputation for uprightness and generosity marked 
by his choice as chairman of the Constitutional Convention of 
1870, as County Commissioner in the uncertain days after the 
great fire, and by the acceptance of his memory in lieu of deeds 
destroyed by the great fire! He was closely associated with 
the rapid development of the state of Illinois. On June 10, 
i860, he was married to Annie McClure, who had come from 
Philadelphia with her father, an architect, who settled with 
his family in Lake County. He brought to that county its first 
library and established there its first church. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hitchcock moved in 1861 to their home at 4741 Greenwood 
Avenue — a street named by Mrs. Hitchcock. Mr. Hitchcock 
died May 6, 1881. In his memory his wife built the hall which 
bears his name, herself laying the cornerstone June 15, 1901. 

Hitchcock Hall was planned by Dwight H. Perkins in free 
modern Gothic style with original details. As gargoyles and 
finials and in other patterns Illinois plant forms have been used; 
for example, around the east door is a meander of ears of Indian 
corn. The long building is divided by fire walls into five sec- 
tions, an arrangement which at once reduces the noise inevi- 
table when all men in a dormitory use a common staircase. 
The sections are connected by a low corridor pierced by two 
entrances. Upon the walls of the corridor are architectural 
photographs. The public rooms are entered through the east 
door. To the right of the entrance hall is the library. Above 
its fireplace is a portrait of Mr. Hitchcock painted by Welling- 
ton J. Reynolds in 1902. In the southeast corner of the room 
is a portrait of Mrs. Hitchcock by Henry S. Hubbell. In the 
southwest corner is a portrait by Ralph Clarkson of Judge 
Daniel Shorey, a trusteee of the University and a lifelong 
friend of Charles Hitchcock. The other pictures, the bronzes, 
and the books are from the Hitchcock home. Adjoining the 
library to the north is the breakfast-room, the kitchens con- 
nected therewith being placed in the basement. The Head of 



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the House occupies the suite of rooms on the rest of this floor. 
''Ten O'Clocks," when the Head is at home in his room, infor- 
mal talks by well-known speakers, and Sunday afternoon teas 
have been distinctive features of the house life. 

On the second floor of section five is the Preacher's Room, 
in which is the mahogany furniture brought west by way of the 
Erie Canal by Mrs. Hitchcock's family, and a collection of 
books by Chicago authors and another about Chicago and the 
Middle West. On the top floor is a completely equipped 
infirmary with a small ward, a nurse's room, and a diet kitchen. 
The rest of the building, except for a large clubroom in the 
basement of the west section, is given over to rooms, single and 
en suite, for ninety- three men. .' '. 

HULL court; ._ 

Hull Court, surrounded by the Hull Biological Laboratories, 
is entered from the north by the large stone gate given by 
Henry Ives Cobb and from the south by a delicately arched 
iron gate. The north gate is the subject of a sonnet by 
Horace Spencer Fiske: 

No porter's lodge along the Oxford High 

On proctor-shadowed student from his rouse 

So grimly frowned as thou; nor blackened boughs 

On Dante losing, hopeless, earth and sky. 

Thy crocket crawlers scare the helpless eye; 

Thine anguished corbels twist their human brows; 
Thy dragon kneelers bend to wicked vows; 

And high-perched finials threat the passer-by. 

And yet through such as thou the race hath passed 
To freedom — superstition's dreadful gate 
Hath oped upon the courts of truth at last; 

Nor all the fears of an imagined fate, 
Nor all the goblin crew of error vast 
Can shut the mind from learning's fair estate. 



42 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

The Botany pond occupies the east side of the Court. In 
the summer botanical specimens — some of them rare — are 
placed about the Court. In every direction the Court 
affords interesting opportunities to the photographer. The 
Nineteenth Convocation, at which the Hull Biological Labora- 
tories were dedicated, was held in Hull Court. 

HULL BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES 

Charles J. Hull, a real estate owner, whose home at 800 
South Halsted Street has become famous as Hull-House, was 
a member of the Board of Trustees of the old University and 
planned to give of his wealth to the old institution. After his 
death his cousin and associate in business. Miss Helen Culver, 
gave to the University parcels of real estate in value about 
equal to one million dollars. Miss Culver determined that 
with this amount provision should be made for biological 
sciences. At the Quinquennial Celebration, July 3, 1896, 
were laid the cornerstones of four laboratories. Botany, Zoology, 
Anatomy, and Physiology, grouped around Hull Court, 

15. PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING (15) 

The Physiology Building, which is the first American labora- 
tory dedicated to physiology, is 102 by 52 feet and four stories 
high. The basement contains one animal room, two general 
laboratories, a shop, and three storerooms. It is connected with 
the greenhouse of the laboratory. The first floor contains two 
general physiology laboratories, a storeroom, a lecture-room, and 
an ofhce. The second floor contains a large lecture-room, an 
X-ray room, two dark rooms, two private physiology labora- 
tories, one private pharmacology laboratory, and two offices. 
The third floor contains two physiology research laboratories, 
one physiological chemistry laboratory, two private physiologi- 
cal chemistry research laboratories, a balance-room, and an 



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office. The fourth floor contains one animal room, two oper- 
ating rooms, one storeroom, one balance-room, and two labora- 
tories, one for physiological chemistry and one for physiology 
and pharmacology. 



i6. ANATOMY BUILDING (i6) 

The Anatomy Building is 120X50 feet, four stories high 
exclusive of the basement and attic, and was constructed to 
provide for anatomy, both gross and microscopic, including 
neurology. The first floor is occupied by three large labora- 
tories for microscopic work (histology, microscopic anatomy, 
neurology), a photographic room, and two laboratories. On 
the second floor there are an additional room for general class- 
work in microscopic branches, a lecture-room, and a chemical 
laboratory. Here, too, are located the laboratories of the staff 



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HULL COURT: THE ANATOMY BUILDING 



in neurology and a laboratory for advanced work and original 
research in neurology. On the third and fourth floors are 
situated the dissecting rooms for human anatomy, the private 
laboratories for instructors, a study-room, and two laboratories 
for research. 

17. ZOOLOGY BUILDING (17) 

The Zoology Building is 120X50 feet and four stories high 
exclusive of the basement. In the basement is one large room 
with glass-covered extension on the south side, designed for an 
aquarium, and several animal rooms. 

On the first floor is the departmental library of the biological 
group, the zoology lecture-room, and laboratories. The second 
floor contains one large laboratory for beginners and a number 
of smaller laboratories for research work. The third and fourth 



46 



THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 




SNELL— HITCHCOCK— ANATOMY— COBB GATE— ZOOLOGY 

floors contain laboratories and research-rooms for comparative 
anatomy, embryology, and genetics, and rooms for the artist and 
for photography. 



i8. BOTANY BUILDING (i8) 

In the basement are storage-rooms for laboratory material 
collected from all over the world, a laboratory for plant physiol- 
ogy, and a technical workshop. 

On the first floor at the south end is a large lecture-room 
used for the larger classes, for meetings of the Botanical Club, 
and for general meetings. A laboratory for elementary botany 
and an adjoining room for work chiefly in plant pathology 
occupy the west side of this floor. The remaining rooms 
are used by the Laboratory Supply Department and by the 
Director of the Laboratory, Professor John M. Coulter, who 



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THE iiUTAM ilLTLDLNL 



uses his office also as the editorial office of the Botanical 
Gazette. 

On the second floor at the north end, Room 21, is a large 
laboratory chiefly devoted to courses in technique and taxonomy. 
Adjoining is a research-room for two students. The next rooms 
(20 and 22) are the offices of members of the staff in charge of 
Cytology and Ecology. Room 23 is a lecture-room for smaller 
classes, for seminars, for examinations of candidates for higher 
degrees, and for social meetings. This room also contains 
interesting souvenir photographs. Room 24 is the laboratory 
for special morphology, with four adjoining research-rooms. 

On the third floor the laboratory (room 31) at the north 
end is devoted to general morphology. Adjoining is the work- 
room and office of a member of the staff. The west side of the 
floor is occupied by a row of six research-rooms. At the south 
end is the ecology laboratory. 



48 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

On the fourth floor are two laboratories, a storeroom, a 
workroom, and office, devoted to plant physiology. There 
is also a photographic dark room and workshop with lathe, 
constant-temperature and high-pressure ovens, etc. 

The top floor is a greenhouse. The principal greenhouses 
of the department are south of Ellis Hall (see p. 27). 

HUTCHINSON COURT 

Hutchinson Court, surrounded by Botany, Hutchinson, 
Reynolds, and Mahdel, is developed as a sunken EngHsh 
garden with narble fountain, the gift in 1914 of Charles L. 
Hutchinson. The ornamental lamps were presented by the 
Class of 1915. The Court is the scene of out-of-door concerts 
by the band and the musical clubs, and especially of the great 
annual '^ University Sing" in June. Here also is held the June 
Convocation, at which the Court provides accommodation 
for some five thousand people. In spring and summer it is 
illuminated by thousands of Japanese lanterns for the President's 
receptions. 

19. HUTCHINSON HALL (25) 

HutcMnson Hall, named for the donor, Charles L. Hutchin- 
son, a Chicago banker and public-spirited citizen who from the 
beginning has been treasurer of the Board of Trustees, is the 
men's dining-hall — a replica of Christ Church Hall at Oxford. 
It was in this room, May 5, 191 7, that the University greeted at 
luncheon the members of the French Mission, when notable 
speeches were made by M. Viviani and the Marshal of France, 
General Joffre. The great room is 115 feet long and 40 feet 
wide. At the top of the wood paneling, beneath a cornice 
treated like that in Christ Church Hall, grotesque heads in old 
ivory with red tongues against a band of gold stars on blue 
ground, are the shields of English and American colleges, in 
proper colors toned to the general key. On the north and south 
sides are the coats-of-arms of American colleges alternating with 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 




Bartlett Gymnasium Hutchinson Hall 

FROM A BOTANY WINDOW 



shields being the monogram HH (Hutchinson Hall). On the 
south wall from left to right the shields are: (i) Darmouth; 
(2) Union; (3) Brown; (4) Amherst; (6) Vanderbilt; (7) Michi- 
gan; (8) Indiana; (9) Bowdoin; (10) Harvard (above the 
fireplace); (11) Leland Stanford Junior; (12) Johns Hopkins; 
(13) Clark; (14) Virginia; (15) Monogram of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago; (16) Catholic University of America; 
(17) Northwestern; (19) Nebraska; (20) Iowa; (21) Kansas; 
(22) Tulane. On the north wall from right to left are those 
of: (i) Wisconsin; (2) Illinois; (3) Pennsylvania; (5) Cornell; 
(7) Minnesota; (8) Williams; (10) Yale (above the fireplace). 
At the east end of the room are these: (i) All Soul's, Oxford; 
(2) King's, Cambridge; (3) New, Oxford; (4) Jesus, Oxford; 
(5) Emmanuel, Cambridge; (6) University of Cambridge; 
(7) Oxford University; (8) Exeter, Oxford; (9) Christ's and 



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St. John's, Cambridge; (10) Hertford, Oxford; (11) Corpus 
Christi, Oxford; (12) Clare Hall, Cambridge; (13) Trinity, 
Oxford; (14) Trinity, Cambridge; (15) Keble, Oxford. At 
the west end the shields are: (i) Worcester, Oxford; (2) Christ 
Church, Oxford; (3) Wadham, Oxford; (4) Lincoln, Oxford; 
(5) Cambridge; (6) University, Oxford; (7) St. John's, Oxford; 
(8) Pembroke, Oxford; (9) Queen's, Oxford; (10) Magdalen, 
Oxford; (11) Balliol, Oxford; (12) Merton, Oxford; (13) Brase- 
nose, Oxford; (14) St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; (15) Oriel, 
Oxford. In the window just above are the arms of American 
and EngUsh foundations: (above) Johns Hopkins; Wadham, 
Oxford; Brown, Oxford; Michigan; New and All Souls, Oxford; 
West Point; (below) Queen's, Oxford; Yale; Trinity, Oxford; 
badge of the city of Chicago; St. John's, Oxford; Harvard; 
Merton, Oxford. 

As in Christ Church Hall, portraits enrich the paneled walls. 
With the exception of pictures now in place, no other portraits 
of members of the faculties will be hung in the hall during the 
lifetime of the persons depicted. Portraits of living members of 
the University are hung in other buildings. For example: A 
portrait of Professor Myra Reynolds is in Foster Hall; in Rosen- 
wald there are a bronze bust of Professor T. C. Chamberlin 
and paintings of Professor ChamberHn and Professor R. D. 
Sahsbury; in Walker, a painting of Professor S. W. Williston. 
The portraits at present in Hutchinson Hall are these • 

West End 

Center jqhN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER 

Founder of the University of Chicago 

ARTIST: EASTMAN JOHNSON 

Full-length, seated figure, turned to right. Mustache. Dark business 
suit. Left hand rests beside books on table covered with rose velvet. 
Signed, in lower left corner: E. JOHNSON, 1894. 
Painted in 1894. Presented in 1894 by friends. 
Height, 78 in.; width, 56 in. 



52 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

Right 

MARTIN ANTOINE RYERSON 

President of the Board of Trustees 
ARTIST: LAWTON PARKER 

Against a gray background a full-length standing figure turned to left . 
Mustache and short beard. Right hand hangs at side; left holds glasses. 
Gown is that of a Trustee of the University of Chicago; on the head is 
mortar-board with black tassel. 

Signed, in lower left corner: LAWTON PARKER, 1904. 

Painted in 1904. Presented by friends. 

Height, 84 in.; width, 43 in. 

Left 

WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER, PH.D., D.D., LL.D. 

1856-1906 

First President of the University of Chicago, 1 891-1906 
Professor and Head of the Department of Semitic Languages and 
Literatures, 1891-1906. 

ARTIST: GARI MELCHERS 

Against gray-green wall full-length standing figure turned to right. 
The purple-faced gown is that of a Doctor of Laws; the hood is that of a 
Doctor of Divinity of Colby College. On the head is a gold-tasseled 
mortar-board. The left hand holds a rolled document. 

Signed, in lower right corner: GARI MELCHERS. 

Painted in 1902. Presented in 1902 by friends. 

Height, 84 in.; width, 44 in. 



North Wall 

ELI BUELL WILLIAMS 

ARTIST: RALPH CLARKSON 

Erect three-quarter-length figure, seated, turned to right. Black frock 
coat. Watch chain. Gray beard and shaven upper lip. 
Signed: RALPH CLARKSON. 
Painted in 1917. Presented June 11, 1918. 



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THOMAS WAKEFIELD GOODSPEED, D.D. 

Secretary of the Board of Trustees, 1890-1913; Registrar, 1897-1913; 
Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Trustees, 19 13- 

ARTIST: LOUIS BETTS 

Threenquarter-length figure, seated, turned to right. White hair; 
short white beard. 

Signed, in upper left corner: LOUIS BETTS, '09. 

Painted in 1909. Presented December 27, 1909, by Captain Henry 
S. Goodspeed. 

Height, 50 in.; width, 40 in. 



ADOLPHUS CLAY BARTLETT 

Member of Board of Trustees. Donor of Frank Dickinson Bartlett 
Gymnasium . 

ARTIST: RALPH CLARKSON 

Three-quarter-length seated figure turned to left. Gray hair; dark 
mustache. Dark clothes. Hands rest on arms of carved black chair. 
Signed, in lower right corner: RALPH CLARKSON. 
Painted in 1900. Presented January 17, 1911, by friends. 
Height^ 50 in.; width, 40 in. 



HARRY PRATT JUDSON, A.M., LL.D. 

Second President of the University of Chicago. Professor of Political 
Science and Head Dean of the Colleges, 1892-94; Professor of Inter- 
national Law and Diplomacy, Head of the Department of Political 
Science, and Dean of the Faculties of Arts, Literature, and Science, 
1894-1907; Acting President, 1906-7; President, 1907-. 

ARTIST: LAWTON PARKER 

Three-quarter-length figure, seated, turned to left. Gray mustache 
Purple-faced gown and hood of a Doctor of Laws of Williams College. 
Signed, in lower right corner: LAWTON PARKER, 1906. 
Painted in 1906. Presented November 17, 1908, by friends. 
Height, 50 in.; width, 40 in. 



54 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

SILAS B. COBB 

i8 I 2-1900 
Donor of Cobb Lecture Hall 

ARTIST: RALPH CLARKSON 

Bust portrait, facing left. White hair; mustache and beard. 
Signed: RALPH CLARKSON. 
Height, 30 in.; width, 24 in. 

MARION TALBOT, A.M., LL.D. 

Dean of Women, 1892-; Assistant Professor of Sanitary Science, 1892-95; 
Associate Professor of Sanitary Science, 1895-1904; Associate Pro- 
fessor of Household Administration, 1904-5; Professor of Household 
Administration, 1905-. 

ARTIST: WALTER D. GOLDBECK 

Three-quarter-length figure, seated, facing spectator. Dark blue dress 
and white collar. Gown and hood of Doctor of Laws. Hands rest on lap. 
Painted in 19 13. Presented by friends. 
Height, 50 in.; width, 40 in. 



GEORGE EDGAR VINCENT, PH.D., LL.D. 

Dean of the Faculties of Arts, Literature, and Science, 1907-11; Ph.D., 
University of Chicago, 1896; LL. J)., ibid., 1911; Assistant Professor 
in the Department of Sociology, 1896-1900; Associate Professor, 1900- 
1904; Professor, 1904-11; Dean of the Junior Colleges, 1900-1907; 
Dean of the Faculties of Arts, Literature, and Science, 1907-11. 

ARTIST: LOUIS BETTS 

Three-quarter-length figure, seated, facing the spectator. Right hand 
in lap; left supported by mortar-board held on knee. Purple-faced gown 
and hood of a Doctor of Laws of the University of Chicago. 

Signed, in upper right corner: LOUIS BETTS. 

Painted in 191 1. Presented in 191 1 by colleagues, alumni, and other 
friends on the occasion of his departure from this University to become 
president of the University of Minnesota. 

Height, 70 in.; width, 45 in. 



AN OFFICIAL GUIDE 55 

South Wall 

HOBART W. WILLIAMS 

Donor of Mr. and Mrs, Eli Buell Williams Fund 
ARTIST: RALPH CLARKSON 

Three-quarter-length figure, seated, turned slightly to right. Business 
clothes. Hands clasped in lap. White mustache and pointed beard. 
Signed, upper right corner: RALPH CLARKSON. 
Painted in 19 17. Presented June 11, 19 18. 



GEORGE C. WALKER 

1838-1905 
Donor of Walker Museum 

ARTIST: EDWARD J. TIMMONS 

Bust portrait, turned left, almost profile. Brown hair and mustache. 
Black business coat. Low collar and bow tie. 

Signed, in lower left corner: E. J. TIMMONS, Chicago. 
Height, 50 in.; width, 40 in. 



GALUSHA ANDERSON, A.M., S.T.D., LL.D. 

1832-1918 

Professor of Homiletics; President of the Old University of Chicago, 1878- 
85; Professor of Homiletics, Church Polity, and Pastoral Duties, Bap- 
tist Union Theological Seminary, 1890-92; Professor and Head of the 
Department of Homiletics, the University of Chicago, 189 2-1904; 
Professor Emeritus of Homiletics, 1904-18. 

ARTIST: FREDERIC PORTER VINTON 

Three-quarter-length figure, seated, turned to right. White hair and 
beard. Right hand in breast of frock coat. Mortar-board in left hand. 
Gown of Doctor. 

Signed: FREDERIC VINTON. 

Painted in 1906. Presented June 10, 1906, by alumni and other friends. 

Height, 50 in.; width, 40 in. 



56 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER 

Founder of the University of Chicago 

ARTIST: WILLIAM COUPER 
Bronze bust. 

Signed: WM. COUPER, New York, 1910. 
Presented August 22, 191 1, by members of the Board of Trustees. 

LEON MANDEL 

1841-1911 

Donor of Leon Mandel Assembly Hall 

ARTIST: RALPH CLARKSON 

Three-quarter-length figure, seated in library beside book-laden table 
on which rests right elbow. Dark business suit. Turned left, facing specta- 
tor. Thin gray hair; mustache. 

Signed, in lower right corner : RALPH CLARKSON (after photograph) . 

Painted in 191 2. Presented June 26, 191 2, by Mrs. Mandel. 

Height, 50 in.; width, 40 in. 

HERMANN EDUARD VON HOLST 

1841-1904 

Professor and Head of the Department of History 
ARTIST: JOHN C. JOHANSEN 

Three-quarter-length figure, seated, turned left. Mustache and beard. 
Brown business suit. Left hand holds documents on lap. Brown back- 
ground. 

Signed: J. C. JOHANSEN. 

Painted in 191 1. Presented by his family and friends. 

Height, 50 in.; width, 46 in. 



FRANK WAKELEY GUNSAULUS, D.D., LL.D. 

Professorial Lecturer on Practical Theology, The Divinity School, 191 2- 
ARTIST: LOUIS BETTS 

Three-quarter-length figure, standing. Left hand holds red book on 
table. The gown is that of a Doctor of Laws. The scarlet hood is that 



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of a Doctor of Divinity, and is lined with the colors of Armour Institute, of 
which the subject is president. 

Signed, in lower left corner: LOUIS BETTS, '07. 

Painted in 1907. Presented February 21, 1911, by Mrs. F. W. Gun- 
saulus. 

Height, 66 in.; width, 42 in. 



East Wall 

LA VERNE NOYES 

1849-1919 
Donor of Ida Noyes Hall and La Verne Noyes Foundation 

ARTIST: LOUIS BETTS 

Three-quarter-length figure, seated in hall of Noyes residence. Light 
gray trousers and tan overcoat. Left hand holds soft hat and gray gloves. 
Signed: LOUIS BETTS. 

Painted in January 19 14. Bequeathed by La Verne Noyes. 
Height, 72 in.; width, 49 in. 



CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON 

Treasurer of the Board of Trustees; Donor of Hutchinson Hall 

ARTIST: LOUIS BETTS 

Against gray-green background full-length figure, standing. Gown of 
Trustee of the University of Chicago. Left hand holds rolled document. 
Signed, lower left corner: LOUIS BETTS. 
Painted in 191 1. Presented November 23, 191 1, by friends. 
Height, 91 in.; width, 50 in. 

A Stairway in the vestibule to the hall leads to the ''minstrel 
gallery" of Hutchinson Hall and to rooms in the Mitchell 
Tower. 

Hutchinson Hall contains also kitchens and a private 
dining-room, the latter decorated by Mr. F. C. Bartlett, both 



58 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

entered through the office of the Commons to the left in leav- 
ing the dining-hall. There is also a cafe, which, entered from 
the corridor opposite the entrance to the Reynolds Club, 
occupies the north side of Hutchinson Court. 



20. THE REYNOLDS CLUB (26) 

Joseph Reynolds was born in Fallsburg, Sullivan County, 
New York, June 11, 1819, and died in Congress, Arizona, Feb- 
ruary 21, 189 1. He was of Quaker parentage and a pioneer of 
the Middle West. During the first thirty-seven years of his 
life he lived in New York State. After finishing a common- 
school course, he taught during the winter months and became 
a drover and cattle-dealer in the spring and summer. A season 
which showed a balance of but three dollars profit caused him to 
join his brother in conducting a general store. After his mar- 
riage to Mary E. Morton in 1845, he built and operated a flour 
mill. This venture was very successful. Subsequently he 
undertook also the tanning of leather, and again he was success- 
ful. In 1865 he sold these interests and moved to Chicago, 
where he engaged in the fur trade. Later he turned his atten- 
tion to buying and selling grain, and established a line of boats 
on the Mississippi, running between St. Louis and St. Paul. 
This line is still in existence, and until recently was known under 
its original name as the "Diamond Jo Steamship Lines Com- 
pany." The sobriquet '^Diamond Jo" Mr. Reynolds received 
from his trade-mark — four lines in a diamond about "Jo." In 
the early 8o's he built the Hot Springs Railroad, a narrow-gauge 
line from Malvern to Hot Springs, Arkansas, which proved very 
profitable. In later years he engaged in mining, owning several 
valuable properties, among which were the Congress Mine in 
Arizona and the Jo Reynolds Mine in Colorado. 

Blake Reynolds, an only son, died while on the threshold 
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had in him was widened to include all young men. The diffi- 
culties of his own youth furnished him with a purpose. His 
widow, who survived him nearly five years, provided that a sum 
of money should be given to the University of Chicago to be 
used for the general purpose of helping deserving students: so 
were established the Reynolds Scholarships and the Reynolds 
Club. 

The building was designed by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge. 
The University Avenue elevation is strongly reminiscent of 
the garden front of St. John's College, Oxford, the ornamental 
windows having been studied from those of St. John's. On the 
north wall of the Club, to the left of the entrance to Mitchell 
Tower, is to be noted the device adopted as the club arms with 
the motto: Filii Eiusdem Almae Matris (''Sons of the Same 
Alma Mater"). The entrance hall at once suggests the stair 



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hall of an old English 
manor house. To the left 
is the lounging-room, 
36X68 feet, decorated, 
like the rest of the rooms 
in the Tower Group, by 
Frederic Clay Bartlett. 
The friezes here and in 
the billiard- room were 
designed after careful 
study of decorations in 
applied design in stuffs 
and brocades of the Tudor 
period. The disks in the 
bookcases — for this room 
was originally planned as 
a library^— typify different 
branches of literature and 
are purely decorative. South of the entrance hall — in which are 
public telephones, bulletin boards, and, above the stone fireplace, 
a picture of Joseph Reynolds — is the billiard- room. The stairs 
lead into the reception room on the second floor. To the south 
are the executive chamber, the correspondence room, and the 
library. A window under the stairway gives access to the 
promenade on the roof of the cloisters, with pretty views. 
Another flight of stairs carries one directly into the theater, 
a room with open sycamore timber trusses, with side walls an 
indefinite golden color; an old ivory band illuminated in Holbein 
alphabet surrounds the room: 

East Wall: Men must know that in this theater of man's life it is 
reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. 

West Wall: Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits 
of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. God give them wisdom that 
have it: and those that are fools, let them use their talents. 



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The Stage curtain, painted by Frederic Clay Bartlett, repre- 
sents a fete day in a mediaeval town. The room is used for 
the Club annual meeting and the much more frequent "smokers," 
at which varying programs by students and invited guests are 
presented. The college dramatic club here presents plays 
written by its own members as well as others. The Land of 
Heart's Desire, for instance, was here produced in the presence 
of the author, William Butler Yeats. A roof promenade above 
University Avenue is reached through the committee room in 
the southeast corner of this floor. In the basement are bowling- 
alleys, a barber-shop, and locker-rooms. 

The Reynolds Club is open to all men students of the 
University on payment of an annual fee of six dollars. 
The number of members is seven hundred and sixty-eight. 
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the officers and manage the Club's annual budget of over 
$10,000.00. 

Dean George E. Vincent, at the laying of the cornerstone, 
June 22, 1 90 1, thus expressed the purpose of the clubhouse: 

Yonder stand laboratories devoted to the sciences of life; here we 
raise a building dedicated to the art of living. There day by day trained 
minds peer ever farther into the secrets of tissue and cell, but they will 
never lay bare the joys of comradeship which are to be housed here— the 
stimulus of wit, play, the fusing power of humor, the soft touch of sym- 
pathy, the thrill of common enthusiasm, the sturdy sense of loyalty to one's 
fellows. 

The University takes pride in her laboratories, but she also covets for 
her students something of the charm of life in the cloisters and quadrangles 
of Oxford and Cambridge; she would preserve in some sort the democracy 
of the old-time New England campus; she would unite in a larger brother- 
hood all student groups, and foster among them a spirit of wider fraternity. 



21. MITCHELL TOWER (27) 

Mitchell Tower, the gift of a citizen of Chicago, John J, 
MitcheliJ differs only slightly from another Oxford original, 
the tower of Magdalen College, the arms of which may be 
noted above the entrance to the tower. The Mitchell Tower 
is 127 feet 3 inches from grade to the top of the corner 
turrets; the Magdalen Tower, from grade to the top of its 
pointed finials, is 140 feet, although the height to the turret 
proper is 128 feet, about the same as in the Mitchell Tower. 
The Oxford Tower is square in plan (about 34X34 feet); the 
Mitchell Tower is 35 feet from north to south and 31 feet 
east to west, the greater width north to south giving room 
for two pinnacles instead of one, as in the Oxford example. 
The second floor of the tower is used as the music-room 
of the University choirs; the third floor is the room of the 
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this tower, like its original, has a ring of ten bells arranged for 
both chiming by one person and change-ringing with one man 
at each bell, one of the very few peals so arranged in this country. 
The bells, dedicated June 9, 1908, were the gift of a large num- 
ber of friends of Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer. Here also is 
the clock mechanism made and presented by the boys of the 
University High School. The clock is geared to ring the 
Westminster quarters, though at present it strikes only the hours 
from 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. Access to the bells themselves, 
two stories above, is had by a ladder. The peal of bells was 
cast in London by Messrs. Mears & Stainbank (Whitechapel 
Bell Foundry, established 1570), makers of ''Big Ben" at 
Westminster, "Great Peter" of York Minster, "Great Tom" 
of Lincoln Cathedral, the clock bells of St. Paul's Cathedral, 



64 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

and the Bow Bells, Cheapside, London. The specifications of 
the bells and inscriptions on each are: 

Diameter Weight Note 

Tenor 51 in. 2,443 lbs. E flat 

A Gracious Woman Retaining Honor 

9th 46 in. 1,820 lbs. F 

Easy to Be Entreated 

8th 42 in. 1,340 lbs. G 

Always Rejoicing 

7th 40 in. 1,193 lbs. Aflat 

Making the Lame to Walk and the Blind to See 

6th 37 in. 990 lbs. B flat 

Great in Counsel and Mighty in Work 

5th 34 in. 812 lbs. C 

Rooted and Grounded in Love 

4th 32 in. 727 lbs. D 

Fervent in Spirit 

3d 31 in. 712 lbs. E flat 

Given to Hospitality 

2d 29 in. 629 lbs. F 

The Sweetness of Her Lips Increasing Learning 

Treble 27 in. 564 lbs. G 

In God's Law Meditating Day and Night 



In contributing to the memorial fund Professor A. A. Stagg 
made a condition that every night at 10:05 a special cadence 
be rung. So it has come about that these bells close each 
college day with the ''Alma Mater" (see p. 133). The bells 
are chimed for five minutes at the chapel hour (noon) each 
day, and at 6:00 o'clock they are chimed for ten minutes. 
On Sunday morning they ring from 10:30 until 10:45 ^-nd 
again for two minutes at 1 1 : 00 o'clock — the hour of the Uni- 



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versity Religious Service. At Convocation, when the Presi- 
dent mentions the death of a member of the University, the 
audience rises and remains standing while the bells sound slowly 
and impressively "Pleyel's Hymn." 

At the foot of the tower in the wall opposite the 
entrance to Hutchinson Hall is a bronze tablet by Daniel 
Chester French, bearing a portrait of Mrs. Palmer and this 
inscription: 

Joyfully to Recall 

ALICE FREEMAN PALMER 

Dean of Women in This University 

1892-1895 

These Bells Make Music 



In the floor opposite the entrance to Hutchinson Hall is 
a bronze tablet bearing the coat-of-arms of the University, with 



66 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

an inscription tablet presented by the Class of 191 1 commemo- 
rating the adoption, in their year of graduation, of the 
University coat-of-arms. 

In the east wall of the cloister, near to the main door of 
Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, is a bronze tablet by Lorado Taf t 
bearing a portrait of Stephen A. Douglas and the inscription: 

IN HONOR OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 
Who in 1855 Generously Con- 
tributed TO the Founding of 
The First University Established 
In Chicago This Tablet Is 
Erected in June 1901 by the Decennial 
Class of the University of Chicago 



22. LEON MANDEL ASSEMBLY HALL (28) 

Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, presented by the Chicago 
merchant whose name it bears, is the largest assembly room. 
The main floor has 696 seats; the balcony contains 12 front 
boxes containing 6 seats each, 10 rear boxes, and 283 other 
seats. The total seating capacity is 1,1 11. In addition, the 
stage for Convocations and University religious services can 
be made to seat 150 persons. The stage is equipped with foot- 
lights, borders, asbestos curtain, and basement dressing-rooms. 
The organ, built at a cost of $10,000 by the Hutchings Votey 
Company of Boston, is placed on the west side of the stage, 
organ screens being placed at either side of the proscenium at 
the level of the gallery. The window nearest the stage on the 
left side, made by Tiffany for the Class of 1902, includes the 
coats-of-arms of Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard, and in 
the center the device of the University of Chicago Class of 
1902, its emblem, the rose, being used also in the upper lights. 

In this room are held all large meetings of the University. 
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are held here, except in June, when the room cannot con- 
tain all candidates for degrees and titles, members of the 
faculties, and trustees. In this room the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Laws was conferred on Cardinal Mercier. At the 
University Religious Service each Sunday at 11:00 a.m., at 
which all friends of the University are welcome, the sermon is 
preached by a member of the University or by some visiting 
minister. The University preacher also speaks at the college 
chapel at noon. The assembly has been addressed by preach- 
ers of various denominations, as Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Abbe 
Felix Klein, Rev. George Adam Smith, Rev. Reginald Campbell. 
Most memorable was the late Professor C. R. Henderson's 
service as chaplain throughout almost the first quarter-century. 
This is the place also of public lectures, such as have been 
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William Howard Taft, or by John Galsworthy and John Mase- 
field on the William Vaughn Moody Foundation. University 
Public Lectures are announced in the Weekly Calendar. The 
University Orchestral Association here offers a series of concerts 
by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, founded by Theodore 
Thomas in the year the University was founded. Ysaye, 
Schumann-Heink, and other musicians have also appeared in 
the series. Students of the University likewise present here the 
programs of their orchestra and other musical clubs. In the 
spring the comic operas of the Blackfriars are here produced, 
and throughout the year the English department and the several 
dramatic organizations present plays. 

23. FRANK DICKINSON BARTLETT GYMNASIUM (31) 

Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium, a sternly masculine 
structure at the northwest corner of University Avenue and 57th 
Street, was erected as a memorial to his youngest son by A. C. 
Bartlett, a Chicago business man. The building, 200 feet long 
by 80 feet in width, is strongly marked by a projecting section 
suggestive of the gate of Trinity College, Cambridge, which 
affords space for a monumental staircase and offices. In the 
entrance hall, directly opposite the main door, are decorations 
by Frederic Clay Bartlett, brother of the young man for 
whom the building is a memorial. In the center is a shield 
with an inscription. Vires, the lion above the center, typifies 
the assistance rendered by physical education to the branches 
symboHzed by the owls, Scientia and Litterae. The inscrip- 
tion is: 

TO 

The Advancement of 

Physical Education 

And the Glory of Manly Sports 

This Gymnasium is Dedicated 

to the Memory or 

FRANK DICKINSON BARTLETT 

A.D. 1880-I9OO. 



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Mr. Bartlett's mural paintings are of mediaeval athletic con- 
tests. The crowd looking on is in gorgeous holiday attire. 
Many of the ornaments and trappings are raised in gesso and 
gilded in antique gold leaf after the manner of early EngHsh 
and Italian decorations. To the left the subject is a single- 
stick contest; to the right the contest is with double-edged 
two-handed swords. The inscriptions are: 

So it the fairer body doth procure to habit in, and it more fairly dight 
with cheerful grace and amiable sight. 

How happy is he born and taught that serveth not another's will: 
whose armour is his honest thought and simple truth his utmost skill. 

The window above the main door (best seen in the morning), 
presented by William Gold Hibbard, one of Mr. Bartlett's 
associates in business, was designed by Edward D. Sperry of 
New York and executed in 15,000 pieces by the American 



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MURAL PAINTINGS, BARTLETT GYMNASIUM 

Church Glass and Decorating Company. The subject is the 
crowning of Ivanhoe by Rowena after the second day's tourna- 
ment at Ashby de la Zouche. Prince John and his adherents 
are to the left; Cedric and his friends are on the right. Ivan- 
hoe is kneeUng before Rowena. The composition is carried 
into the upper tier of lancets by the foliage of trees surrounding 
the lists. Above the trees is the tower of Ashby de la Zouche. 

In the basement are the four large dressing-rooms for Uni- 
versity athletic teams, pictures of which adorn the quarters; 
there are also shower baths, Turkish baths, rubbing-room, and 
special classrooms for wrestling and fencing. On the wall of the 
rubbing-room is an illuminated motto, ''For Chicago, I Will." 

On the first floor are the offices of the Director (right), and 
the examining physician (left), a trophy-room containing a por- 
trait of the Director of Physical Culture and Athletics, A. Alonzo 
Stagg, painted by Oskar Gross and presented by Alumni of the 
University. Here also is the swimming-pool, 60 X 28 feet. The 
room affords seats for 200 spectators at races and water-polo. 
The south half of this floor is given over to a dressing-room con- 
taining 1,500 lockers and 25 shower baths. The vaulted passage 
leads to the locker-room (left) and to the athletic field. 

On the second floor is the main exercising room, 75X195 
feet, with a suspended running- track 12 feet 6 inches wide at 
the sides and 16 feet 8 inches wide at the ends. The track, on 
a line 18 inches from the guard rail, measures 131 J yards, or 



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13 . 41 laps to the mile. The exercising apparatus is adjustable, 
so that the floor can be speedily cleared, some of the appa- 
ratus folding beneath the gallery and some of it being stored 
beneath the floor in a room 40 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 5 feet 
high. The room when thus cleared makes an audience hall for 
2,500 people. It has been so used for Convocation, as when 
James Bryce was the Convocation orator, in 1907, and when the 
Northern Baptist Convention met here. It is used annually 
for the Washington Promenade and other social carnivals. 

The building was designed by Shepley, Rutan & CooHdge 
in accordance with suggestions of the Director, Professor A. A. 
Stagg, and his associate, Dr. J. E. Raycroft. The cornerstone 
was laid by Mr. A. C. Bartlett, November 28, 1901, and the 
building was dedicated January 29, 1904. All undergraduate 
men, unless excused by the examining physician, are required 
to take physical culture during ten of the quarters of residence 
required for graduation. Each is also required to learn swim- 
ming. The schedule of classes can be found on the bulletin 
board at the entrance. 

24. ATHLETIC GRANDSTAND: STAGG FIELD (37) 

Stagg Field, so named in honor of Professor Amos Alonzo 
Stagg, Director of the Department of Physical Culture and 
Athletics, who from the beginning, when, according to a student 
song, he was "pitcher, catcher, coach, shortstop, and half back 
too," has been a notable force for physical and moral strengtJi 
among University men, lies between University and Ellis 
avenues and 56th and 57th streets. It is inclosed by a concrete 
wall 14 to 17 feet high, pierced by several gates, notably the 
''Class of 191 2 Gate" in 57th Street opposite the north gatp 
of Hull Court. On the west side of the field is a reinforced 
concrete grandstand, 483 feet 4 inches in length, 99 feet 4 inches 
in width, and, at the highest point of the towers, 57 feet in 
height. The grandstand, designed by Shepley, Ruttan & 



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Coolidge, is in reality an auxiliary gymnasium, for in addition 
to quarters for home and visiting teams there are handball 
courts, squash courts (presented by F. H. Rawson of Chicago), 
and a rackets court (presented by Harold F. McCormick of the 
Board of Trustees), The grandstand will seat over 8,000, who 
through the large number of exits can leave the stand in three 
or four minutes. Temporary stands erected on the other three 
sides make it possible to accommodate at the major football 
games 25,000 persons. In the quadrangles there is provision 
also for 3 1 tennis courts ; an auxiliary baseball and hockey field 
is opposite Greenwood Hall. The cross-country runs are along 
the Midway and through Jackson and Washington Parks. 

During the Spring Quarter, 19 16, two hundred and sixty 
men satisfied requirements in physical culture by playing 
tennis regularly. 



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KOSE.NWALD liALL 



WALKER xUUbEUM 



25. WALKER MUSEUM (12) 
The donor of this building, George C. Walker, deeply 
impressed by his father's speech at the opening of the Illinois 
and Michigan Canal in 1848 in which he emphasized the rela- 
tionship of the productivity of the soil of the Mississippi Valley 
to its probable population, was always interested in the way 
lUinois and Chicago exemplified the principle. George C. 
Walker saw this city grow from a population of fifteen thousand 
to fifteen hundred thousand. To erect in this growing com- 
munity a museum of natural history soon became one of his 
desires. Having been interested in the old University, he 
offered to give for its re-establishment land at Morgan Park. 
When plans were made for an entirely new university, he gave 
land for the secondary school of the institution, the Morgan 
Park Academy, which after a useful existence ceased in 1907. 
As a Trustee of the new University, Mr. Walker was fired with 



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enthusiasm when it was announced that the president of the 
University of Wisconsin, T. C. ChamberHn, and his colleague, 
R. D. Sahsbury, had decided to join the staff of the University 
of Chicago, and at this time he gave to the institution the 
building to be used as a natural history museum. With his 
cordial consent the structure was made the home of the depart- 
ments of geology and geography. Not until the erection of 
Julius Rosenwald Hall, twenty-two years later, was it possible 
to use the entire building for a museum. 

On the first floor, when exhibits are permanently installed, 
the room will be surrounded by a series of alcoves formed by 
large exhibition cases. Each alcove will exhibit the life of a 
given geological period. Some start has already been made in 
permanent installation on the first floor. The same plan will 
be carried throughout the museum. On the wall beside the stair- 
way is a portrait of Professor S. W. Williston, painted in 1915 by 
C. A. Corwin and presented by Mr. Williston's former students. 

The central space on the second floor will contain a 
systematic exhibition of fossil invertebrates. The west 
room affords space for drawer stacks in which to preserve 
the several fossil collections belonging to the Museum. Made 
up of the James, Washburn, Gurley, Sampson, Faber, Van 
Home, Bassler, Haines, James Hall, Tiffany, Teller, and 
many other collections, that of Walker Museum, which is 
especially rich in paleozoic material of the Mississippi Valley 
region, contains over 1,000,000 specimens. On this floor also 
are the offices and classrooms of Dr. Stuart Weller, Professor 
of Paleontologic Geology and Curator of the Walker Museum. 

The exhibition room on the third floor is devoted to anthro- 
pology. Here Professor Frederick Starr conducts courses. 
Among the collections are the Ryerson coUection of Mexican 
archaeology (some 3,000 specimens), the Ryerson collection 
from the chff dwellings and cave houses of Utah, the Clement 
Japanese collection, etc. 



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JULIUS ROSENWALD HALL, FROM HARPER COURT 



26. JULIUS ROSENWALD HALL (39) 

Julius Rosenwald Hall was, at the request of the depart- 
ments of geology and geography, named for a citizen of Chicago, 
distinguished for the wisdom of his contributions to education 
and philanthropy, who on his fiftieth birthday, among other gifts 
of importance to the city of Chicago, presented to the Univer- 
sity the funds which erected this building. The cornerstone was 



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laid by Mr. Rosenwald, June g, 1914, and the building was 
dedicated in March, 191 5. The architectural features, designed 
by Holabird & Roche of Chicago, were adapted to plans care- 
fully matured by the departments whose specific needs the 
building was to meet. 

The character and uses of Rosenwald Hall have been clearly 
expressed in the stone carvings. Above the main entrance in 
a large panel is the seal of the University, surmounted by a scroll 
bearing the name of the building. The supporters of the shield 
are students, capped and gowned, the one carrying in his hand 
a hammer and the other a theodolite. Immediately below in 
panels and shield is a frieze of roses, an allusion to the name of 
the donor. On the right is a rehef portrait of Lyell, the foremost 
English exponent of the principles of geology; on the left is 
one of Dana, the most revered of American expositors. On 
the spandrels of the doorway are the seals of the state of Illinois 
(left) and of the city of Chicago (right). To the left of the 
doorway an aged man is represented as casting away an old 
world shrunken by time and scarred by volcanic devastation; 
to the right is the figure of a child spinning a chaotic mass 
into the form of a world and sending it forth to find its destiny 
among celestial spheres. 

Other pendants at this level around the building are shields 
on which are carved the floral emblems of America, England, 
France, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland, Spain, 
Japan, Mexico, Wales, Egypt, Persia, and Greece. 

Reliefs of the Eastern and Western hemispheres are set to 
the right and left of the central panel. 

The cornice is given declared relief by portraits of eminent 
men chosen to represent various aspects of the earth sciences, so 
selected as also to represent national progress in these sciences 
and the special contributions of American universities. On 
the north elevation, Hall represents the early development of 
American stratigraphy and paleontology; Logan, the primitive 



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geology of Canada; Cuvier, the initiation of vertebrate paleon- 
tology; von Buch, a notable stage of general geologic philos- 
ophy; Ritter, the evolution of modern geography. 

With these portraits are associated fossils and other symbols 
of the fields represented, among which types of the Hfe of the 
past are given precedence (east to west): sea-urchin, coral, 
crinoid, crinoid, gastropod, sea-urchin, trilobite, gastropod, 
gastropod, bryozoan, pelecypod, gastropod. 

The gargoyle at each corner is a restoration of Limnoscelis. 

West elevation. — On the west cornice, Da Vinci symbolizes 
the first clear recognition of the meaning of fossils; Werner, the 
early science of petrology; Barrande, the orderly evolution of 
Paleozoic life; Reclus, exact cartography; Guyot, the edu- 
cational development of physical geography. 

At the same level are (north to south): crinoid, coral, 
crinoid, coral, brachiopod. 

South elevation. — On the south cornice, Newbury, Dawson, 
and Alexander Winchell, each in his own way, represent effective 
diffusion of geologic thought in America at a critical stage when 
prejudice seriously barred scientific progress; Irving stands 
for the newer phases of archaeozoic investigation and Williams 
for the new petrology. 

Associated symbols are (west to east): gastropod, brachio- 
pod, crinoid, brachiopod, gastropod, crinoid, brachiopod. 

East elevation. — On the east cornice, Marco Polo represents 
the early dissemination of geographic knowledge in the face 
of disbelief, and Emmons stands for modern economic 
geology. 

On the east cornice of the wing are: medusa, brachiopod, 
gastropod, coral, cephalopod, crinoid, gastropod. On the east 
side of the main building are: coral, pelecypod, cephalopod. 

Square tower. —On the square tower to the east are winged 
gargoyles — a buffalo, a bull, an elephant, and a lion — to repre- 
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Octagonal tower. — On the octagonal tower, devoted to 
meteorology, are eight gargoyles, four of which represent the 
winds (Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus), and four of which 
are birds emblematic of the aerial realm: the duck, the eagle, 
the albatross, the condor. The gargoyle at the corner beneath 
the bronze celestial globe is a restoration of a Permian reptile, 
Lepidosaurus. Near the tower entrance is a panel bearing 
a shield on which are carved a geologist's collecting bag and 
hammers, together with a scroll with the legend: ''Dig and 
Discover." Adjacent are carvings of a candle, a book, 
and a mural crown. 

In the basement, in addition to conference rooms for classes 
in general geology (i and 3), is a lecture-room seating one hun- 
dred and eighty-one. The basement provides space also for a 
dark room and rooms for dynamic geology, mineralogy, physio- 
graphic modeling, lathe and section work, a high-temperature 
and high-pressure laboratory, and a workshop. In the left 
center is a seismograph, for which a solid concrete four-foot pier 
is sunk to the solid rock, 62^ feet below the floor. The seismo- 
graphic records are in charge of the United States Weather 
Bureau. 

On the first floor is a museum room, marked architecturally 
by a carved wooden screen at the main entrance and by corbels 
bearing bas-reliefs of Humboldt, Richtofen, Le Conte, Powell, 
Shaler, and Sir John Murray — portraits selected, not as personal 
memorials, but as emblems of progress in special phases of earth 
sciences. In the cases are type collections of minerals, rocks, 
ores, and economic products, and a synoptic series of fossils 
arranged in historical order. The selection throughout is made 
with reference to class work. A few steps above the museum 
floor are a classroom for elementary geology and geography, a 
topographical map laboratory (14), two geological map labora- 
tories (12 and 13), and in connection with them four rooms (10, 
11,15, ^iid 16) for conferences, in which smafl groups of students 



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meet instructors for critical work on maps. In this way even 
in large classes individual attention to each student is possible . 

On the second floor are the offices of Professor T. C. 
Chamberlin (Room 22A), Professor R. D. Salisbury, Head of 
the Department of Geology (Room 20B), and Professor H. H. 
Barrows, Head of Department of Geography (Room 20A). 
Here also are the rooms of Professors J. P. Goode (23), R. T. 
Chamberlin (22B), and E. S. Bastin (24). Room 25 is a semi- 
nar room. The main geology classroom is Room 26. Rooms 
27 and 28 are devoted to geography. The west portion of this 
floor contains the book-stacks and the departmental reading- 
room with seventy- two seats at ample tables. In the reading- 
room are portraits painted by Ralph Clarkson and presented 
by friends and former students of the subjects: Thomas 
Chrowder Chamberlin, Professor and until 19 19 Head of the 
Department of Geology, and Rollin D. Salisbury, Professor and 
Head of the Department of Geology. There is also a bronze 
bust of Professor Chamberlin by Lorado Taft. 

On the third floor are: Room 30, a geochemical laboratory; 
31 and 32, devoted to mineralogy; 33, a laboratory for economic 
geology; 34, a classroom for economic geology and elementary 
mineralogy; 35, a special laboratory; 36, a dark room; 37, a 
classroom for advanced classes in geology and for the depart- 
mental seminar; t^S, for petrology and petrography, with an 
adjoining small laboratory for high- temperature and other work. 
Room 39 is a graduate-study room from which open six small 
offices for members of the departmental staff. 

On the fourth floor Room 40 is devoted to research in 
geography. Most of the rooms on the floor are devoted to 
small research offices for advanced students. Room 48 is 
the ofhce of Professor F. R. Moulton of the Department of 
Astronomy, who has his office in this building because of his 
close co-operation with Professor Chamberlin in work upon the 
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Room 49, the ''council room," is assigned to departmental con- 
ferences, to examinations for higher degrees, and to social 
gatherings. Room 40 gives access also to the 92-foot tower 
in which are the offices and recording instruments of the com- 
pletely equipped United States Weather Bureau, which may 
be visited at hours posted on the bulletin board. 

27. THE LAW SCHOOL (29) 

The Law School occupies a building erected especially for it 
in 1904 at a cost of $248,653. The cornerstone was laid April 2, 
1903, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The building is three 
stories high, 175 feet long, and 80 feet wide, remotely suggestive 
of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. On the first floor are 
four lecture-rooms, two of which are in theater form. On the 
walls are hung the Charles B. Pike collection of some two 
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the English chancellors, lord keepers, vice-chancellors, and a 
few prime ministers. In the North Room are the common- 
law judges of the King's Bench, the Common Pleas, and 
the Exchequer. In the corridor and stairway are the justices 
of the United States Supreme Court. In the Court Room 
are the other American judges and lawyers. In the West 
Room are the Scottish and Irish judges and English lawyers. 
The mezzanine floor is occupied by the Hbrary stackroom, 
connected with the reading-room above by electric book- 
lifts and designed to contain steel stacks for 90,000 volumes. 
Opening into the stackroom are studies for members of the 
Faculty and the Librarian's room. On the third floor is the 
reading-room, a great hall with high, timbered ceiling, 165 feet 
long, 50 feet wide, and 35 feet high, lighted on all sides by 
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provides space for tables accommodating 400 readers. Adjoin- 
ing the reading-room is the office of the Dean. In the basement 
is the smoking-room and the locker-room, containing several 
hundred steel mesh lockers for the use of students. 

28. WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER MEMORIAL 
LIBRARY (36) 

From 1892 to 1902 the General Library of the University 
was housed in a temporary one-story building, which also gave 
accommodation to the University Press and the Gymnasium. 
This building stood where Hutchinson Court is now located. 
In 1902, on the completion of the University Press Building on 
the corner of 58th Street and Ellis Avenue, the Library accom- 
panied the Press to the new location. Here also it remained 
ten years. 

The first active steps toward the erection of a permanent 
central library building for the University were taken in the same 
year in which the Library was located in the Press Building. 
On June 24, 1902, on recommendation of President Harper, 
the Board of Trustees appointed a Library Commission which 
included, besides the President himself, three members of the 
Board of Trustees and six members of the Faculties. The report 
of this Commission, presented to and adopted by the Board 
of Trustees in August of the same year, recommended that the 
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nine buildings, which should include buildings for the Divinity 
School, the Law School, the Historical and Social Science Group, 
the Philosophy Group, the Classical Group, the Modern Lan- 
guage Group, and the Oriental Group ; that each of these build- 
ings contain a departmental library for the departments housed 
in it; and that the buildings be so constructed that the reading- 
room of each departmental library should be on approximately 
the same level with that of the central building and in easy 
communication with it by bridge or otherwise. The Com- 
mission also recommended that the central library building be 
erected in the center of the Midway frontage of the main 
quadrangle, flanked on the west by the buildings for Modern 
Languages and Classics and on the east by those of the 
Historical and Social Science Group. The Haskell Oriental 
Museum had already been built. The Law Building was 
begun the following spring. The Divinity School was assigned 
space north of Haskell, and Philosophy and Psychology north 
of the Law School. 

Tentative plans for all the buildings of the Library Group 
as thus planned were drawn in connection with the preparation 
of the report of the Commission. Those of the Library itself 
were repeatedly restudied by the architects, Shepley, Rutan 
& Coolidge, in the next six years, and submitted for criticism, 
not only to the Board of Trustees, but to many of the librarians 
of the country. 

On the death of President Harper in January, 1906, there 
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University Quadrangles some 
permanent and worthy memo- 
rial of the first President of 
the University, and it was soon 
decided that that memorial 
should take the form of a 
central library building erected 
in accordance with the plan 
which President Harper 
himself had taken part in 
shaping. 

Mr. John D. Rockefeller 
promised to give three-fourths 
of whatever amount should be 
given for this purpose up to 
$800,000. To meet this offer 
$210,992.82 was subscribed 
and duly paid by over two 
thousand individual givers. 
These gifts and the interest 
accumulated before and during 
the process of building yielded 
$1,045,552. Of this sum 
$815,506 was spent upon the 
building and its furniture, and 
$216,000 (after deduction for 
some incidentals) set aside as 
an endowment fund for the physical maintenance of the building. 
Ground was broken January 10, 19 10, on the fourth anni- 
versary of the death of President Harper. The cornerstone 
was laid June 14, 1910. The building was dedicated June 11, 
19 1 2, two years and five months from the breaking of ground. 
It was opened to the use of readers at the beginning of the 
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The library is in 59th Street between Ellis and Univer- 
sity avenues, and forms the south boundary of Harper Court, 
The building is 262 feet long and 81 feet wide. The high- 
est point of the towers is 135 feet above the ground. The 
demand for beauty has been met in these towers, the east 
one being suggestive of the belfry of Christ Church Hall, 
Oxford. 

In the carvings, both exterior and interior, in addition to the 
traditional designs characteristic of the Gothic architecture, 
much use has been made of the coats-of-arms of European, 
American, and Asiatic universities and of the printers' marks 
of the most famous European printers. The following is a list 
of the universities and colleges whose coats-of-arms or seals 
are carved on the building, and of the inscriptions, arranged 
according to location: 

South elevation. — Between the first- and second-story 
windows of the West Tower: west side: Toronto, McGill; 
center: Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst, Brown; east side: 
Dubhn, Edinburgh. 

Over the third-story window of the West Tower, from left 
to right: London, Leyden, Gottingen,' Upsala, Aberdeen, 
Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Salamanca, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Geneva^ 
Manchester, Vienna. 

Over the third-story window of the East Tower, seven 
Oxford shields and seven Cambridge shields as follows: New 
College, Christ Church, Balliol, Oriel, Magdalen, Trinity, 
Oxford University; Cambridge University, Peterhouse, Pem- 
broke, Kings, Trinity, Emmanuel, St. John's. 

On the parapet over the central window of the Reading- 
Room: The University of Chicago. 

North elevation. — Over the third-story windows: West 
Tower: Harvard, Northwestern, Indiana, Johns Hopkins, 
Minnesota, Michigan, Princeton; East Tower: Wisconsin, 
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On the parapet over the Reading-Room are the coats- 
of-arms of Annapohs, The United States of America, West Point. 

On the parapet over the center of the Reading-Room, north 
elevation, are the words: "Science, Art, Literature." 

Over the central north entrance is the following inscription : 

In Memory Of 

WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER 

First President of The 

University of Chicago 

Over the second-story windows above the main entrance to 
the West Tower: Yale, Virginia, Illinois, Leland Stanford 
Junior. 

Over the main entrance of the West Tower are the coats- 
of-arms of the University of Chicago and the United States 
of America. 

Of the four entrances to Harper Library the one in the West 
Tower is treated architecturally as the principal one, for here, 
on the south wall near the door to the President's office, is the 
dedicatory tablet executed by Tiffany and given by the Class 

of 1912: 

to honor the memory of 

WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER 

First President of the University of Chicago 

Born 1856 Died 1906 

This Building Was Erected 

By Gifts of the Founder of the University 

Members of the Board of Trustees and Faculties 

Alumni Students and Other Friends 

A.D. 1912 

In the entrance hall of the West Tower printers' marks are 
carved on the stone corbels supporting the elaborately carved 
oak beams of the ceiling. On the south side they run from 
east to west, as follows: (i) The device of Johann Frohen, 
Basle, the last years of the fifteenth century and the first 
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caduceus, on which is perched 
a bird. The two serpents are 
crowned.) Froben. (2) Device 
introduced by Christopher 
Plantin about the middle of 
the sixteenth century. (A 
pair of compasses directed by 
a hand.) The best known of 
several devices used by the 
famous Plan tins of Antwerp, 
printers and publishers. 
Lahore et Constantia. (3) 
Device of Gerardus Wols- 
schatius, Antwerp, first quarter 
of the seventeenth century. 
(An anchor held by two hands 
reaching from the clouds. 
The Greek letters Alpha and 
Omega — the beginning and 
the end — and Chi Rho, the 
first letters of the name of the 
Savior.) Concordia. (4) 
Device of Marcus Amadorus, 
Venice, 1569. (A stork.) 
Vigilat nee Fatiscit. On the 
north side the same series is 
repeated in the same order 
from west to east. To the right of the memorial tablet is the 
door of the President's office (Rooms Wii, 13, 15, 17), in the 
anteroom of which hang historical photographs and portraits of 
Convocation orators. The door to the left leads to the two floors 
of underground steel stacks. Admission to the stacks can be 
secured on application to the Director. Beyond the doors in the 
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sixty. Lecturers like Rabindranath Tagore and Abel le Franc 
have addressed the University in this room. The other rooms 
on this floor are used for classes and to house reserve books, 
rare books, the Lane collection, and the ofiice of the Reader's 
Department. 

On the stairway in the west hall, halfway up the first flight, 
appears the coat-of-arms of the University of Chicago. The 
second floor is devoted chiefly to library administration. 
Room W21 contains the acquisition department, and just east 
of it is the cataloguing and classification sections wherein is con- 
ducted the cataloguing and labeling of new and old books, accord- 
ing to the Library of Congress system. Beyond the cataloguing 
room are the offices of the Director and the Associate Director. 
The east end of this floor is given over to stackrooms, to bind- 
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Sociology. Rooms 22 and 24 are used by the classification 
division. Room M20 is a women's rest and conversation room. 
From the hall on the third floor of the west tower, where 
there is a checkroom, entrance is had to the public card-catalogue 
and delivery room. By turning to the right one reaches by 
a passageway and bridge the Haskell Oriental Museum and 
Divinity Library. By turning sharply to the left beside the 
brass rail the visitor reaches the chief glory of the building, the 
main reading-room. It is 140 feet long and 53 feet wide and 
the highest point of the tile ceiling is 47 feet above the floor. 
There are seats for three hundred and sixty-four readers, and 
the open shelves afford room for commonly used reference 
books. The stone walls, the groined ceiling, and the window 
traceries give to the room a great dignity and beauty, which is 
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DETAIL OF WEST SCREEN, HARPER READING-ROOM 

On the screen at the west end are the coats-of-arms of the 
following universities of the Western Hemisphere: Harvard, 
Yale, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Cali- 
fornia, Chicago. 

Above the screen, on the wall of the gallery, is the following 
inscription, carved in the stone: "Read not to contradict, nor 
to believe, but to weigh and consider" (Bacon). In the space 
above will ultimately be a mural painting. 

On the screen at the east end are the coats-of-arms of 
the following universities of the Eastern Hemisphere: Ox- 
ford, Cambridge, Paris, Berlin, Petrograd, Bologna, Tokyo, 
Calcutta. 

Above the screen, on the wall of the gallery, is the following 
inscription: ''Whatsoever things were written aforetime were 
written for our learning" (Rom. 15:4). In the space above 
this there will be a mural painting. 

On the corbels supporting the ceiling arches are printers' 
marks arranged on the north side from west to east, and on the 
south side from east to west, in the following order : (i) One of 
the devices used by the Elzevirs of Amsterdam. First used by 
Isaac Elzevir in 1620. (An elm tree over which a vine is 
growing; under it a hermit.) Non Solus. (2) Device of 
William Caxton, the first English printer, 1476-91. (3) Device 
of Johannes Columbius, Deventer, middle of seventeenth cen- 
tury. (An open book displayed on the breast of the Phoenix, 
and inscribed with the Greek letters Alpha and Omega.) 
Renovabitur. (4) Device of Henning Grosse, Leipzig, about the 
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DETAIL OF EAST SCREEN, HARPER READING-ROOM 

skin and club.) Sic Itur ad Astra. (5) Device of Guillaume 
Rouille, Lyons, 1545 to about 1590. (An eagle arising on 
a globe, two serpents.) In Virtute et Fortuna. (6) Device used 
by Thomas Vantr oilier, London and Edinburgh, about 1565- 
1605; also by John Norton, London, beginning of seventeenth 
century. (An anchor held by a hand reaching from the clouds.) 
Anchora Spei. (7) Device by Theodosius Rihelius, Strasburg, 
third quarter of sixteenth century. (A winged woman.) (8) 
Device introduced by Aldus Manutius, in 1502, founder of the 
great Venetian house of Aldus, which published books from 
about 1495 to the opening of the seventeenth century. In the 
ceiling itself the coat-of-arms of the University of Chicago, 
and the monogram HML (Harper Memorial Library) are 
repeated. 

At the east end of the room is the Gunsaulus collection of 
early books and manuscripts, the Hodge collection of books and 
manuscripts of the Reformation period, and the Eckels collec- 
tion of Cromwelliana. 

Passing through the screen one finds on the right the reading- 
room for graduate students in the Historical Group in which 
hangs a portrait of the first head of the History Department, 
Hermann Eduard von Hoist, painted by Karl Marr of Munich. 
Across the hall is the Manuscript Room (E30). A complete 
catalogue of manuscripts was issued in 19 12 by the Curator 
of Manuscripts, Professor E. J. Goodspeed. The Butler- 
Gunsaulus collection of manuscripts, chiefly of Washington, 
Lincoln, Jefferson, etc., may be examined on application to the 
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The passage beside the History Reading-Room leads by 
a bridge, from which there is (left) a view of Harper Court and 
(right) of the Women's Halls, to the Law Library, in the south 
end of which is the Periodical Room of the general library. An 
exit beside the Manuscript Room leads to the hallway of the 
East Tower. 

By the elevator or stairs access is had to E32 on the mez- 
zanine floor, where is the Erskine M. Phelps collection of por- 
traits, busts, medals, orders, and personal relics of Napoleon 
and his period, access to which may be secured on application 
at the desk of the History Reading-Room (E31) or at the 
Director's office (M23). 

The fourth floor of the East Tower affords offices for the 
Departments of Political Science (E42) and Household Adminis- 
tration (E47), a seminar and faculty room (E41), and a con- 
versation room for men (E40). 

The fifth ffoor of the East Tower is the headquarters of 
the Department of Sociology (E50, 52, 54) and the Depart- 
ment of Political Economy (E51, 53, 55, 57). In the East 
Tower the sixth floor is given over to the Department of 
History (E60, 61, 62, 63, 67) From this floor a stairway 
leads to the fanroom and to the roof, access to which is 
possible only with the consent of the Superintendent of Build- 
ings and Grounds. 

In the West Tower the third mezzanine floor contains a 
conversation room for men and affords access to the 
gallery of the Reading-Room. The fourth floor contains 
reading-rooms for the graduate students of the Modern 
Language Group. The fifth floor affords offices for the 
Department of Philosophy and a reading-room for graduate 
students in that department. On the sixth floor are the 
office of the librarian of the School of Commerce and Adminis- 
tration and the library and consultation room of the same 
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HASKELL ORIENTAL MUSEUM 



29. HASKELL ORIENTAL MUSEUM (14) 

Haskell Oriental Museum, on the west side of Harper Court, 
is connected with the Library by a bridge and will be similarly 
connected with the Theological Building to the north. At the 
World's Fair in Chicago, 1893, great interest in religion was 
aroused by the so-called ''World's Parliament of Religions," 
in which Rev. John Henry Barrows, D.D., of the First Pres- 
byterian Church, was a moving spirit. Inspired by this inter- 
est, Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, the widow of Frederick Haskell, 
a Chicago merchant and member of Dr. Barrows' church, 
founded the Haskell lectureship in Comparative Religion, and 
a little later added another $20,000 to found the Barrows 
Lectures in India in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, and some 
other chief cities of Hindustan, where a large number of edu- 
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lectures are given every three years. An interest in the Orient 
also led to the gift of Haskell Oriental Museum — one of the first 
buildings dedicated to oriental studies. July i, 1895, the first 
public cornerstone exercises of the University were held when 
the stone of this building was laid. It bears inscriptions in 
Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: 

Greek: He was the true light that coming into the world enlighteneth 
every man. 

Latin: Light out of the east. 

Hebrew: The entrance of thy words giveth light. 

On the first floor the north half of the building is given over 
to the Haskell Assembly Room where the Haskell Lectures 
have been delivered. This room was used by President Harper 
for his Sunday-morning Bible classes. Here his body lay in 
state the day before his funeral. The four recitation rooms on 
this floor are used by the Divinity School, The south end 
of the building, formerly the President's office, is until the 
erection of the Theological Building the office of the Dean 
of the Divinity School. Here also are professorial offices and 
the office of the American Institute of Sacred Literature. 

On the second floor at the north end is the office of the 
Museum Director, Professor James H. Breasted, who is also 
Director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 
founded in 1919 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. In the north 
museum and the south museum on this floor, in the corridors, 
and in the south museum on the top floor are the collections. 
In these Hither Asia, the Far Orient, and Egypt are represented. 

Under Hither Asia are included both the biblical and the 
Baby Ionian- Assyrian collections. The former comprises maps, 
casts, and photographs illustrating Palestine and other Bible 
lands, besides original objects revealing oriental life, ancient and 
modern. 

The Babylonian-Assyrian collection contains about nine 
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utensils and ornaments, are from excavations at Bismaya, 
made through the University's own Oriental Exploration Fund, 
augmented by gifts from Mr. R. Campbell Thompson, Mr. 
T. W. Robinson, and others. Casts of sculpture, chiefly from 
originals in the British Museum, complete the exhibit. 

From the Far Orient comes a comparative-religion collection 
illustrating Hinduism, and especially Japanese Buddhism and 
Shintoism. The several hundred cultus-objects are mostly 
loaned by Dr. Edmund Buckley, who himself collected them 
during a long residence in the East. Six eighteenth-century 
Hindu paintings from Calcutta were given by Mr. Martin A. 
Ryerson. A notable collection of Chinese coins was presented 
by Mr. Jacob Speicher of Shanghai. 

The Egyptian collection, the largest in the Museum, em- 
braces nearly ten thousand original monuments, from all the 
great epochs of Egyptian history. They have come chiefly from 
the excavations of Petrie, Quibell, and Naville, besides a collec- 
tion made in the Nile Valley for the University by the Director 
in 1894-95. Most notable is the series of about two thousand 
ancient oriental weights collected by the Egypt Exploration 
Fund and presented to the Museum. There is also a large col- 
lection of casts and photographs. 

THE THEOLOGICAL BUILDING 

The Divinity School of the University of Chicago per- 
petuates the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, an institu- 
tion originally established and still controlled by the corporation 
known as ''The Baptist Theological Union located at Chi- 
cago." The institution was fully organized in 1867, and for 
twenty-five years enjoyed an uninterrupted prosperity. When 
Mr. Rockefeller made his first subscription of $1,000,000 to the 
University, he made it a condition of the gift that the Seminary 
should become the Divinity School of the University. In order 
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his subscription should be used for the erection of a building 
for the Seminary on the University Campus, and that $100,000 
of it should be set apart for the further endowment of the 
Seminary. In keeping with these requirements Articles of 
Agreement were entered into between the boards of the two 
institutions by which the Theological Seminary became the 
Divinity School of the University of Chicago. 

For theological instruction, including the work of the 
Divinity School and the seminaries and houses affiliated with 
the University, a gift of $200,000 was announced in March, 
19 16. Mrs. Joseph Bond gave $50,000 for a chapel in memory of 
her husband, a former trustee of the Divinity School. Ground 
was broken June 6, 19 16, in the central quadrangle, north of 
Haskell Oriental Museum, at the celebration of the fiftieth anni- 
versary of the founding of the Divinity School. 

HARPER COURT 

Harper Court is bounded by the William Rainey Harper 
Memorial Library, the Law School, and Julius Rosenwald 
Hall, Haskell Oriental Museum, and the new Theological 
Building. The Court when used for Convocation affords seat- 
ing space for over 5,000 persons. The locusts, planted in 1892, 
will ultimately be replaced by elms in conformity with the gen- 
eral scheme of planting. 

30. THE CLASSICS BUILDING: HIRAM KELLY 
MEMORIAL (38) 

The Classics Building, at the corner of East 59th Street and 
Ellis Avenue, almost the spot where ground was broken in 
1891, is the ''Hiram Kelly Memorial," for which Mrs. Hiram 
Kelly, the donor of Kelly Hall and Green Hall, bequeathed a 
fund of $150,000. The cornerstone was laid by Professor Frank 
Bigelow Tarbell, June 9, 19 14, when Professor William Gard- 
ner Hale delivered an address. The building was finished in 



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March, 19 15, and occupied at the opening of the Spring Quarter, 
It was designed by Shepley, Rutan & CooHdge. 

On the ground floor are six classrooms and an assembly 
room for public lectures. Book stacks occupy the rest of the 
space on this floor and the corresponding space on the two floors 
above, as well as the entire basement. On the second floor are 
offices of professors in the Departments of the Classical Group, 
a seminar room, three rooms reserved for special research work, 
a men's common room, and a women's common room. Each 
common room, about 40X18 feet, contains a fireplace, appro- 
priate furniture, and a kitchenette for the preparation and serv- 
ing of light refreshments. Each room is equipped, moreover, for 
stereopticon lectures and blackboard demonstrations, the black- 
boards being hidden behind the paneled walls. For large 
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concealed doors. On the third floor are rooms for paleography 
and epigraphy, the Department of the History of Art, the 
Library Adviser, and the main reading-room. This last is the 
chief architectural feature of the interior. Its size is 40X48 
feet exclusive of an alcove, 8X40 feet. The room is two stories 
in height and has a hammer-beam roof. On carved wooden 
shields are the names and arms of Erasmus and Sir Thomas 
More. The reproductions, in marble and bronze, of classical 
busts are the gift of Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus. The museum room, 
33X83 feet, and some additional staff offices are on the fourth 
floor. 

The Classics Building is the west unit of the Midway group, 
of which the Harper Memorial Library is the central feature. 
Architecturally the building conforms to the spirit of the Harper 
Library. The fine proportions and graceful windows, and 
especially the loggia above the main entrance from the Quad- 
rangle, contribute to the artistic success of the building. 

Further interest is given the structure by the stone carvings. 
On the north elevation at the right of the main entrance is a copy 
of an antique head now in the Louvre; and at the left a copy 
of the so-called Seneca. Directly above the tracery work in the 
loggia is the coat-of-arms of the University of Chicago. In the 
corners just above the loggia are carved illustrations of Aesop's 
fable of The Fox and the Crow. At the left other subjects 
from the fables appear in this order: The Old Hound, The 
Lion and the Bulls, The Fox and the Crow, The Wolf and the 
Sheep, The Fox and the Crane, The Old Hound, The Lion and 
the Bulls, The Fox and the Crane, and The Lion and the Mouse. 
High above the loggia is a grotesque mask. At the base of the 
oriel is a carving of Hercules and the Dogs. 

On the east side, at the decorative window in the first story, 
are heads of Demosthenes and Sophocles. 

On the south elevation the carvings under the oriels repre- 
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Hercules and the Lion. The carved heads at the central 
windows in the first story are, from east to west, Homer, Cicero, 
Socrates, Plato. In the cornice is continued, from east to 
west, the series from Aesop's fables: The Wolf and the Sheep, 
The Fox and the Crane, The Old Hound, The Lion and the 
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The Fox and the Crow, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox, The 
Fox and the Crane, The Wolf and the Sheep, The Dog in 
the Manger, The Ass's Shadow, The Lion and the Mouse, The 
Fox and the Crow, The Wolf and the Sheep. 

On the west elevation the carving on the lower part of the 
oriel represents a faun. In the cornice are, from south to north, 
these subjects: The Fox and the Crow, The Lion and the Mouse, 
The Fox and the Crane, The Lion and the Bulls, The Old 
Hound, The Fox and the Crane, The Wolf and the Sheep. 

31. GREENWOOD HALL 

Greenwood Hall at 6030 Greenwood Avenue is an apart- 
ment building which in 1909 was transformed into a residence 
for fifty-one women. 

THE WOMEN'S QUADRANGLE 

The Women's Quadrangle is so named because of the 
Women's Halls on the east side of this space. It is inclosed 
also by Walker Museum, Julius Rosenwald Hall, and the Law 
Building. It is the scene of receptions and garden parties; 
it has been used also for Convocation and for out-of-door 
theatrical exhibitions. The Masque in dedication of Ida Noyes 
Hall was presented here in June, 19 16. Here also are the 
recording instruments of the United States Weather Bureau. 

32. NANCY FOSTER HALL (8) 

Nancy Foster Hall, a residence hall for women at the north- 
west corner of 59th Street and University Avenue, was the 
outcome of President Harper's presentation to the Chicago 
Woman's Club of the need for provision for women students. 
This, one of the earliest gifts of Chicago citizens, seemed to 
stamp with approval the University attitude toward women. 
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of Elm Hill, Peterboro, New Hampshire, In 1840 she came to 
Chicago as the wife of Dr. John H. Foster and lived in Lake 
Street, later in Madison Street. Just before the Civil War 
they moved to Belden Avenue and Clark Street to a house 
which was perhaps the last one burned in the great fire. After 
Dr. Foster died in 1874, Mrs. Foster made her home with her 
daughter, Mrs. George E. Adams, through whom she made her 
gifts to the University. Mrs. Foster felt that the hall itself 
was only her initial gift; and so she and Mrs. Adams sought 
to furnish the house not only comfortably but with taste — 
giving now a piano or grandfather's clock, now rugs, tables, 
or etchings — so that the sixty-eight residents in the house might 
not live in a "dormitory," but in a refined, dignified, com- 
fortable home. The spirit of Mrs. Foster's gifts has been con- 
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Visitors ring at the front door and are admitted to the 
parlors on the first floor. Above the fireplace in the Seniors' 
dining-room is a portrait by William M. Chase of the first 
Head of Foster House, Professor Myra Reynolds. Above the 
fireplace in the living-room is a portrait by Anna Klumpke 
of Mrs. Nancy Foster. 

33. KELLY HALL (10) 

Kelly Hall, a residence hall for women, was the first gift 
of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Kelly, donor also of Green Hall in memory 
of her parents (see Green Hall) and the Hiram Kelly Memorial 
(see Classics Building). Mrs. Kelly was married to Hiram 
Kelly in i860 and went by way of steamer and the Panama 
Railway to live in Sacramento, California, where Mr. Kelly 
had a general store, fitting out miners and mine mills. His 
was a large business with branches in Virginia City and Carson 
City. During these years the Kellys were neighbors of C. P. 
Huntington, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker, interested 
in the new railways, who sought to have Mr. Kelly join them. 
He, however, decided in 1865 to return to the East. So sick 
that he could not speak, Mr. Kelly was carried for eleven days 
across the Isthmus of Nicaragua while Mrs. Kelly walked 
beside him through the dense growth. The rest of their lives, 
except for a foreign tour, they spent in Chicago. Mr. Kelly died 
in 1889, soon after occupying a new home in Prairie Avenue. 
Mrs. Kelly died in 1904. The hall houses 42 students. It was 
first occupied October i, 1893. Visitors ring at the front door. 

34. GREEN HALL (11) 

Green Hall, a residence hall for women, bears the name of 
the parents of the donor, Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly (see Kelly Hall). 
Her father, Turpin Green, was a son of Caleb Green, a cousin 
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mother, Martha, was daughter of another Revolutionary 
soldier. Both were Baptists and both were widely known for 
their benevolence. Their daughter presented, May 17, 1898, 
$50,000 for the hall, which was opened January i, 1899. The 
Dean of Women, Professor Marion Talbot, is Head of the 
House. Visitors ring at the front door and are admitted to 
the parlors, reading-room, and dining-room on the first floor. 

35. BEECHER HALL (9) 

Beecher Hall, a residence hall for women, was erected by 
Mrs. Jerome Beecher, a sister of Silas B. Cobb, as a memorial 
to her husband, who was one of the earhest of Chicago citizens 
to contribute to the first fund for a university. The hall is in 
size like Kelly Hall, erected at the same time and opened Octo- 
ber I, 1893. Admission to the parlors on the first floor may be 
secured by ringing the bell at the front door. A portrait of 
Mrs. Beecher is above the fireplace in the dining-room. 

THE QUADRANGLE CLUB 

At the southeast corner of 58th Street and University Avenue 
is the Quadrangle Club. Although a separate corporation, it is 
closely identified with the University through its membership, 
which is made up chiefly of persons connected with the Univer- 
sity. The building was erected by C. B. Atwood, who designed 
the Fine Arts Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, 
which has long stood in Jackson Park as the Field Museum; the 
east portion of the structure was planned by Howard Van Doren 
Shaw. The club, organized in 1893, will occupy a building 
to be erected by the University at the southeast corner of 
57th Street and University Avenue from designs by Howard 
Van Doren Shaw. The Clubhouse, to be erected at the north 
end of the lot, wiU include a suite for official guests of the 
University. 



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CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 

The Chicago Theological Seminary is on the north side of 
58th Street between University and Woodlawn avenues. The 
present building is used for residence and administration. Ulti- 
mately there will be a central building containing a library and 
assembly hall and an eastern building which will be the home 
for the President. All will conform in style with the present 
building on University Avenue. 



DISCIPLES DIVINITY HOUSE 

The Disciples Divinity House has a property at the north- 
east corner of 57th Street and University Avenue. The tem- 
porary structure of the Hyde Park Church of the Disciples will 
be removed and the Chapel of the Divinity House will be erected 
on the site, to be used jointly by members of the Disciples 
Divinity House and the Hyde Park Church of the Disciples. 



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The north side of the property will afford space for a dormitory, 
and at the east end of the lot will be offices, classrooms, and a 
library. 

36. LEXINGTON HALL (30) 

When in 1902 separate instruction for Junior College men 
and women was inaugurated, men were assigned to the building 
discarded by the School of Education and a new temporary 
structure was erected for women. Like EUis Hall it was named 
for the adjacent street, now called University Avenue. It has 
been occupied since the Spring Quarter, 1903. Until the open- 
ing of Ida Noyes Hall the structure in its 14 rooms provided an 
office and dining-room for the Women's Commons, head- 
quarters for the Young Women's Christian League, the Neigh- 
borhood Clubs, and Spelman House, an organization of 
undergraduate women. Here are the stores and bakery of the 



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LEXINGTON HALL 

University Commons. Here also is the University Nursery, a 
co-operative venture of members of the University Community. 

THE SITE OF THE CHAPEL 

In presenting his final gift of $10,000,000, the Founder 
directed that the amount of $1,500,000 should be devoted to 
a chapel, which, ' 'dominant in its architecture, may proclaim 
that the University in its ideal is dominated by the spirit of 
religion." 

In the original sketch for the University buildings it was 
proposed to place the chapel in the central quadrangle at 58th 
Street and University Avenue. It is now proposed, therefore, 
to devote the entire block from University Avenue to Woodlawn 
Avenue and from 58th to 59th Street to this purpose. The 
architect of the chapel is Bertram Goodhue, of New York. 

LA MAISON FRANCAISE 

In June, 1919, the building at 5810 Woodlawn Avenue was 
opened as a home for women students of French. 

WOODLAWN HOUSE 

At 5820-24 Woodlawn Avenue two buildings provide 
accommodations for women organized as Woodlawn House in 
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37. THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE (13) 

At the northeast corner of 59th Street and University 
Avenue is the residence erected in 1895 for the President of 
the University. It was designed by Henry Ives Cobb. 

38. IDA NOYES HALL (41) 

Ida E. S. Noyes was born in the state of New York of New 
England ancestry. When she was very young her parents 
moved to Iowa. From the Iowa State College she was gradu- 
ated, as was her future husband, La Verne Noyes. In her 
college course she developed that clearness and accuracy in 
thinking to which, with her wit and cheerfulness, was largely 
due her power for leadership. In college, too, was exhibited 
her talent as an artistic reader, actor, and public speaker. 
Above all, her fellow-students praised her on account of her 
generous sympathy for the misunderstood and unfortunate 
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FIFTY-NINTH STREET, IDA NOYES HALL 

writing, especially verse, persisted in later years, along with 
faithful attention to more serious writing and books — the 
business letters which largely made for her husband's early 
achievement and the ledgers which measured that success. 
A love of painting led her to study for several years in the Art 
Institute and the Julian Studios in Paris. A love of country 
led her to intelligent devotion to the work of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution, especially the Department of 
Patriotic- Education. As a memorial to such a woman — 
winning in personahty, a lover of literature and art, wise in 
philanthropy, democratic in friendship, skilful in leadership, 
devoted to her home and her country— Ida Noyes Hall is dedi- 
cated to the life of the women of the" University of Chicago. 
Ida Noyes Hall is the gift of Mr. La Verne Noyes. The 
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functions performed for the men by the Frank Dickinson 
Bartlett Gymnasium, the Reynolds Club, and Hutchinson 
Commons — is more domestic in feeling than some of the formal 
English Gothic buildings of the University, and gives the effect 
of a large Tudor house. The architects are Shepley, Rutan & 
Coolidge. 

The main portion of the building has a frontage of 240 feet 
on 59th Street between Woodlawn and Kimbark avenues. 
Space enough is left at each end for an addition, or for a con- 
necting building, as need may suggest. Ground was broken 
November 19, 19 14, and the cornerstone was laid by Mr. Noyes 
April 17, 1915. The building was dedicated in June, 1916. 

From the paneled and beamed main hall on the first floor 
doors on the right lead to the refectory, a room 89 feet by 44 
feet and 18 feet high, seating 300 persons. On the ceiling 
beams are stucco decorations, and carved figures surmount the 
wall panels. Adjoining this room are the kitchens and service- 
rooms of the commons. In the main hall directly opposite 
the chief entrance are the doors to the exercising floor of the 
gymnasium. A door in the northwest corner of the gymnasium 
opens into the natatorium, finished in buff tiles with a swimming- 
pool 60X24 feet, with skylight, and windows opening into the 
cloister garden. In the east wall is the coat-of-arms of the Uni- 
versity in mosaic. Steps from the swimming-pool lead to the 
dressing-rooms below, and a door opens into the cloister. 
Returning to the main hall, one finds on the west side of the 
hall the door to the cloister, a checkroom, and steps leading to 
the common room. Here there is a tea alcove with kitchenette; 
and beyond the common room is the library, with a dedicatory 
inscription and the University arms carved above the oak 
mantel. On the south wall of the library is a portrait of Mr. 
Noyes by Louis Betts, and on the north wall is a portrait of 
Mrs. Noyes by the same artist. Again returning to the main 
hall, one finds on the south side the office of the building and 



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IDA NOYES HALL 
(From the North) 



on either side of the main stairway steps leading to the base- 
ment. 

In the basement the space under the gymnasium is devoted 
to dressing-rooms and shower baths. The space under the 
refectory is given over to lockers and drying-rooms. The west 
part of the basement contains a large game room, two bowling 
alleys, locker and retiring rooms. 

On the second floor, reached by the main stairway, there is 
a trophy-room which opens directly on the spectators' gallery 
of the gymnasium. The east wing is devoted to parlors for 
various social purposes. Parlor B is the headquarters of 
alumnae and graduate women. Parlor D is the Young Women's 
Christian League room. The rooms west of the memorial hall 
are those of the Department of Physical Culture. On the right 
are the rooms of the examining physician. The offices of mem- 
bers of the instructional staff are to the left. The Director's 
office is next to the large west room devoted to corrective 
gymnastics. 

The hall of the third floor is the foyer of the theater to the 
right. To the left is a large sun parlor opening on a south roof- 
garden overlooking the Midway. North of the sun parlor is a 
large room in which are the offices of student organizations. 
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also there is access to the roof of the gymnasium, overlooking 
the cloister, the playing field, and the outdoor theater. 

In the Ida Noyes theater are mural paintings, ''The Spirit 
of Youth," by Jessie Arms Botke, to commemorate the masque 
presented in the Women's Quadrangle by the women of the Uni- 
versity on the occasion of the dedication of Ida Noyes Hall. Of 
that masque this was the allegory: 

In comes Youth, joyous in unawakened power. To her the past is but 
a voice long stilled, the present her possession, and the future a place whither 
her dreams may fly. Guided by her angels she comes to Alma Mater seated 
on her Gothic throne, surrounded by the perfection of nature — the Lake, the 
pageant of the Sky with the health-giving Sun, the pale beauty of the Moon, 
the Clouds and the reviving Rain — the low-lying Fields with their whole- 
some workers. Youth throws herself at Alma Mater's feet, eager for a 
test of her young strength. And so Alma Mater summons her ideals, as a 
challenge to Youth's spirit. In answer come, in their turn, the Olympic 
Games, for the perfection of her body's growth, and that she may learn to 
take victory simply and defeat with courage; the Romance of Literature, 
that her imagination may be stirred and her dreams take form; the Spirit of 
Worship, that this earth-loving child may lift her eyes to the enduring sky. 
Then Knowledge places her lamp in Youth's hands. And now indeed is 
Youth rich with gifts. Then comes the City seeking aid from Alma Mater, 
and the wise mother, knowing that her child must spend her strength for 
others before it shall be truly hers, bestows on Youth the Gift of Service. 

East Wall. — Above the proscenium is the coat-of-arms of the 
University of Chicago with palm leaves and branches of laurel. 
To the left are symbols of some of the studies pursued in the 
University: Archaeology (a Pompeian lamp, an Egyptian papy- 
rus, and an Ionic capital). Drama (tragic and comic masks), 
Chemistry (a retort and balance), Art (three white shields in a 
blue field). Medicine (the staff of Esculapius, herbs, and a medi- 
cine jar), Literature (two books and a lighted lamp). Pharma- 
cology (a mortar and a pestle). To the right are other symbols 
of the curricula: Mathematics (a compass, a triangle, and a 
ruler), Geography (a globe, a map, and a ruler), Architecture 
(five Ionic columns, a blueprint, and a compass), Economics, 



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Commerce, and Industry (a beehive), Poetry (Pegasus), House- 
hold Arts (a hearth and a spinning wheel). Law (an open book 
and the scales of Justice). On this side too are three heralds 
summoning the masquers. 

South Wall. — Against a background of trees and of the build- 
ings of the University and above a foreground of mille fleurs, 
which like the drawing and color of the figures adds to the 
impression that the artist has transformed the masque as an 
Elizabethan would have changed it for its Tudor setting, are 
the characters of the masque : The Spirit of Gothic Architecture, 
the tall figure of a gray-bearded man in a gray robe. A maroon- 
garbed page bearing the coat-of-arms of Alma Mater. Alma 
Mater in white garments, against the Law Building, which was 
the background of the acted masque. Against the background 
of Ida Noyes Hall the figure of Youth with a crown of spring 
flowers. The little blue waves and the Lake, in a shimmery 
dress of blue that merges upward into green and then into a 
white crest, pass beneath Ida Noyes Hall and the Mitchell 
Tower. A mist-veiled figure carrying an orb is the Moon. 
Then, before the Harper Memorial Library, is the golden Sun 
Chariot. Bringing the fruits of the earth are the Treaders of 
grapes and the Harvesters. The Contestants of the Olympic 
Games are next — lithe athletes bearing Greek bowls and laurel 
crowns, who pass, with their two judges, beneath the towers of 
Bartlett Gymnasium. The Dancers of the Persian Romance 
appear by tall cypresses and the windows of Leon Mandel 
Assembly Hall : pages, the Prince, the enslaved Princess, swords- 
men, and a falconer. Then, with the sacred book comes the 
blue-robed Spirit of Worship, and Knowledge with her lighted 
lamp. Behind two helmeted pages the City follows with her 
gray-coated pages waving the blue banner of the Lake. The 
final section on this wall represents the Endless Cycle of Youth. 

West Wall. — Above the main doorway are decorative figures 
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North Wall. — The panels between the doors of the north wall 
illustrate episodes in the masque. As the architectural motif 
was used on the south wall, the waters of Lake Michigan are 
used on the north wall. From left to right these are the sub- 
jects: A decorative panel of trees and shrubbery; the Appeal 
of Youth to Alma Mater; the Olympic Games; the Harvesters 
and Workers in the ripened Fields; on Youth, at the behest of 
the City, Alma Mater bestows the Gift of Service; Alma Mater 
and the Cycle of Youth. 



SCAMMON COURT 

The block bounded by 58th and 59th streets, Kimbark and 
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of Education — Emmons Blaine Hall, the University High 
School Boys' Club, Kimbark Hall, the Gymnasium, and Henry 
Holmes Belfield Hall — ^grouped around Scammon Court and 
south of Scammon Gardens. On the towers in the southwest 
and southeast corners of the court are bronze tablets with an 

inscription: 

SCAMMON COURT 

This Enclosure is Named in Memory of 

A Public Spirited Citizen of Chicago 

And a Liberal Friend of Education 

JONATHAN YOUNG SCAMMON 

1812-1890 

And in Recognition of the Generosity 

Of His Widow 

MARIA SHELDON SCAMMON 

J. Young Scammon is a name continually recurring in the 
annals of the city of Chicago. A successful banker, he devoted 
himself to all sorts of civic enterprises: he was one of those to 
organize the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and he was one of 
the committee which brought about the organization of the 
South Park System. ''A liberal friend of education," he 
proved himself in his long service as a trustee of the old Uni- 
versity of Chicago, to which he gave the Dearborn Observatory. 
The Scammon residence occupied the site of the School of 
Education buildings. In presenting the land Mrs. Scammon 
decreed that the Scammon Gardens should always remain 
such. In addition to facilities for horticulture it offers oppor- 
tunity for the study and care of shrubs and trees, for school 
gardening, and for the location of outdoor plays and other forms 
of entertainment. 

39. EMMONS BLAINE HALL (24) 

The School of Education of the University of Chicago was 
formed by the consolidation with the University of Chicago 
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EMMONS BLAINE HALL 

Mrs. Emmons Blaine— although at the dedication of the new 
buildings, Mrs. Blaine modestly said: ''I did not found it, 
I simply found it" — and presided over by the late Colonel 
Francis W. Parker, became a part of the University in 1901. 
The Laboratory School of the Department of Education in the 
University, the founder and director of which was Professor 
John Dewey, formerly Head of the Department of Philosophy 
and Education in the University of Chicago, had for some 
years prior to the date above mentioned been intimately related 
to the Department of Education in the University. The 
South Side Academy, the Dean of which was Dr. William B. 
Owen, was united with the Chicago Manual Training School, 
whose head for many years was Dr. Henry Holmes Belfield, to 
form the University High School in 1903. There is, therefore, 
gathered within the School of Education a complete school 
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and graduate department — with opportunities for training 
teachers under the most favorable educational surroundings, 
and with all the privileges of a great university. The funda- 
mental purpose of this School of Education is to organize 
education on a scientific basis and to equip students with a 
knowledge of the principles of educational psychology, school 
organization, and methods, and to give them a survey of the his- 
torical development of educational institutions so that they shall 
be prepared to carry on educational work in an independent 
and scientific manner. The various schools are organized so 
as to furnish the largest opportunity for experiment and 
observation. 

For the Chicago Institute Mrs. Blaine had caused James 
Gamble Rogers to prepare plans, and after the consolidation 
of the Institute with the University Mr. Rogers was retained 
to build the new home of the School of Education. The build- 
ings are erected about a court with low buildings east and west 
of the court to permit ventilation by the prevailing southwest 
winds in summer. To increase privacy the buildings are set 
upon a terrace. The Midway frontage is 350 feet and the 
greatest depth from north to south is 162 feet. The building 
was erected by Anita McCormick Blaine in memory of her 
husband, Emmons Blaine, a son of James G. Blaine. Ground 
was broken in the autumn of 1901 and the building was finished 
and occupied in October 1903, although it was not formally 
dedicated until May i, 1904. 

Above the fireplace in the central corridor is a bust of 
Francis Wayland Parker, first Director of the School of Educa- 
tion, by Charles J. Mulligan, unveiled December 9, 1916. 
Inscription: True Education Frees the Human Spirit. 

The room numbers begin at the left of the Midway entrance 
and continue around the quadrangle. Rooms 100 to 199 are 
on the first floor; 200 to 299 on the second floor; 300 to 399 on 
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the upper floors may be reached by taking the elevator in the 
west corridor. To reach rooms on the fourth floor, leave the 
elevator at the third and take the west stairs to Room 415 and 
the east stairs to the Lunch Room. The Lunch Room on the 
fourth floor is open to visitors between the hours of 1 1 : 30 a.m. 
and 1:30 P.M. 

The first grades are in session from 8:45 a.m. to 12:00 m.; 
the second and third grades from 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; the 
fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grades, from 8:45 a.m. to 3:00 
p.m. After three o'clock the shops and laboratories are open on 
certain days for additional optional work in sewing, printing, 
cooking, woodworking, and science. There are intermissions 
from 10 : 45 to 1 1 : 00 a.m. and from 1 2 : 00 m. to i : 00 p.m. During 
a part of the noon intermission, from 12 : 30-12 : 50 p.m., the three 
gymnasiums are open for free play and games under the super- 
vision of the members of the Physical Education Department. 

Twice a week the grades assemble in two sections for open- 
ing exercises in Room 214. Grades I, II, III, and IV meet on 
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. Grades V, 
VI, and VII meet at the same hour on Wednesdays and 
Fridays. 

The ofiices of the Director of the School of Education, the 
Dean of the College of Education, and the Principal of the 
Elementary School are in this building. 

The Elementary School welcomes visitors to its classes at 
all times. Programs of the work may be obtained in the Dean's 
Office, Room 100, and in the office of the Elementary School, 
Room 301A. Since visitors usually come to inspect the actual 
work of the school, teachers and pupils will continue the class 
exercises without formally greeting those who enter the rooms. 
This, however, indicates no lack of cordiahty on the part of the 
school. In order that guests may see the school to the best advan- 
tage, they are requested to refrain from conversation while in 
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The High School Gymnasium is a one-story structure in 
the center of Scammon Court, divided into two rooms, each 
60X36 feet with adjoining rooms for offices, dressing, lockers, 
and showers. Girls use the south room for games and apparatus 
work; boys use the north room. For outdoor sports the Ele- 
mentary School uses Jackman Field, named for the late prin- 
cipal of the Elementary School, and the High School uses 
a field south of the Midway between University and Greenwood 
avenues. 

41. KIMBARK HALL (35) 

Kimbark Hall, at 5825 Kimbark Avenue, is an apartment 
building transformed for the purposes of the University High 
School. On the first and second floors are eleven classrooms; 
on the third are sewing-rooms for the Department of House- 
hold Art, and a restroom for the girls of the High School organ- 
ized as a Girls' Club. Several rooms on the third and fourth 
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The University High School, opened October i, 1903, was 
formed by the union of the Chicago Manual Training School 
and the South Side Academy. The South Side Academy was 
founded in 1892, and was conducted as a private institution 
until 1897. In that year the control of the school passed into 
the hands of the University of Chicago, with which for some 
years it had been closely connected as an affiliated institution. 
The Chicago Manual Training School was founded by the 
Commercial Club of Chicago. Its history dates from the 
regular monthly meeting of the Club held March 23, 1882, at 
which the necessary funds were subscribed, and a committee 
appointed to propose a plan for the organization of the school. 
The Chicago Manual Training School Association, composed 
exclusively of members of the Commercial Club, was incor- 
porated under the laws of the state of Illinios, April 19, 1883, and 
the control of the school was vested in a Board of Trustees, 
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124 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

exercises began February 4, 1884, and the dedicatory exercises 
were held June 19 following. The first class was graduated 
June 24, 1886. This school, which was endowed by John 
Crerar with the sum of $50,000, and which occupied a valuable 
site at Twelfth Street and Michigan Avenue, was the first 
independent manual- training school in the United States. 
The school was incorporated in the University of Chicago, May 
25, 1897. In the spring of 1901, when the Chicago Institute, 
founded by Mrs. Emmons Blaine, became the School of Edu- 
cation of the University of Chicago, the University announced 
the intention of removing the Chicago Manual Training School 
to the grounds of the University. The new building was begun 
in the spring of 1903. The cornerstone was laid June 17 of 
that year. 

In 1909 the Trustees of the University named the Manual 
Training Building Henry Holmes Belfield Hall in memory of 
the man who, since its establishment in 1882, had been prin- 
cipal of the Chicago Manual Training School and who, after 
the incorporation of that school in the University High School, 
continued as Dean until his retirement in 1908 after twenty- 
six years of service. In the west entrance hall is a bronze 
memorial tablet bearing a protrait of Mr. Belfield and an 
inscription: 

TO THE MEMORY OF 

1837 HENRY HOLMES BELFIELD 191 2 

Soldier Educator Citizen 

This Tablet Is Erected by His Friends the Alumni 

Of the Chicago Manual Training School 

Belfield Hall is 350 feet long and 65 feet wide. The two 
ends are three stories in height and the shops between are one 
story high and are lighted by a saw-tooth roof. Here are well- 
equipped woodshops, a forgeshop, a foundry, a machine-shop, 
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ST. PAUL'S ON THE MIDWAY AND RYDER DIVINITY HOUSE 

RYDER DIVINITY HOUSE 

At the corner of 6oth Street and Dorchester Avenue is the 
Church of St. Paul's on the Midway (UniversaUst). Adjacent 
are the buildings of the Ryder Divinity House. 



YERKES OBSERVATORY 

The Yerkes Observatory is at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, 
76 miles from Chicago on the Chicago and Northwestern Rail- 
way. Additional railway facihties are obtained by the electric 
line terminating at the head of Lake Geneva (at Fontana), two 
miles from the observatory, which connects with the Chicago, 
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway (Chicago and Madison line) at 
Walworth, Wisconsin, and with the Chicago and Northwestern 
Railway (main line to Minneapolis) at Harvard, Illinois, 12 
miles distant. Visitors are admitted on Saturdays: in summer 



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YERKES OBSERVATORY 



from 1:30 to 4:30 P.M.; at other seasons from 10 to 12 a.m. 
The. operation of the great telescope is demonstrated and the 
work of the Observatory described by a member of the staff, 
but visitors cannot be permitted to look through the telescopes. 
A collection of transparencies from original negatives of celestial 
objects is exhibited. Several thousand persons thus visit the 
observatory each season. A special illustrated guidebook to 
the Observatory has been prepared by the Director, Professor 
E. B. Frost, and may be secured at the Observatory or at the 
University Press. 

Charles T. Yerkes, a keen business man of Chicago, agreed 
in 1892 to finance a plan to buy two glass disks of 42-inches 
diameter which had been cast by Mantois of Paris. Mr. Yerkes 
also agreed to have Alvan Clark & Sons finish the disks and 
have Warner & Swazey of Cleveland construct a mounting. 



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So the great refractor of the University, a 40-inch telescope, 
the length of which is 63J feet, was secured. In addition to 
this there is a very interesting and full equipment of other 
telescopes and apparatus described in the aforesaid special 
guidebook. The building itself was designed by Henry Ives 
Cobb in accordance with the plans of Professor George E. Hale, 
the first Director of the Observatory. It is a Romanesque 
structure of brown Roman brick with terra cotta ornaments. 
It is in the shape of a Latin cross, 326 feet long. The Observa- 
tory is used only by members of the departmental staff and 
advanced research students. During the Summer Quarter 
qualified teachers of astronomy or physics in other institutions 
participate in the work of the Observatory as volunteer research 
assistants. Elementary instruction in astronomy is given 
within the University Quadrangles at Chicago. 



UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 

This is the downtown college of the University of Chicago, 
organized to meet the needs of persons who cannot spend their 
entire time in study on the University Quadrangles. This 
division of the University was organized in 1898 upon the agree- 
ment of Mrs. Emmons Blaine to give $5,000 annually for five 
years for the purpose. The work of the College is offered at 
80 East Randolph Street. The courses are identical in character 
and in University credit with those offered upon the quadrangles. 
The maximum registration was reached in the academic year 
1916-17, amounting to 4,311 registrations by 1,697 students. 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL 
SCHOOLS 

In the latter part of October, 19 16, the General Education 
Board and the Rockefeller Foundation voted wilHngness to con- 
tribute $1,000,000 to the endowment of medical work in the 
University of Chicago on the basis of a general plan on which 
agreement had been reached. This plan contemplated two 
medical schools, each with its own administration and faculty; 
each providing for instruction and research. Research in medi- 
cal subjects will be carried on in connection with both medical 
schools as circumstances may warrant. Medical research will 
be under the general direction of a University Board consisting 
of the President of the University as chairman, the Dean of each 
medical school, the Director of each affiliated research institu- 
tion, and four members of the University Faculties appointed 
by the Board of Trustees. The existing contracts with the 
Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute and with the John 
Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Institute for Infectious Dis- 
eases will provide at once for definite undertakings of this 
character. In addition to the two millions offered by the 
Boards in New York it became necessary for the University to 
obtain pledges to the amount of $3,300,000. Six months after 
the approval of the plan the entire sum had been raised. The 
fund amounts to $5,461,500. This does not includes the assets 
of the Rush Medical College, the Presbyterian Hospital, and 
other elements of the new plan. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL 

A new medical school will be erected on the Midway Plais- 
ance with the primary purpose of training students for the degree 



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of Doctor of Medicine. Provision will be made for about 350 
students. Members of the faculty will give their entire time 
to teaching and research. On the south side of the Midway 
will be erected the Albert Merritt Billings Hospital, for which 
the Billings family has provided the sum of $1,000,000. It will 
contain suitable laboratories and lecture rooms and about 250 
beds for patients. The staff of the hospital will consist of the 
medical faculty. Patients will be admitted only if willing to 
have their cases used for teaching or research. The hospital 
will be a part of the medical school and therefore under the con- 
trol of the medical faculty and subject to the Board of Trustees 
of the University of Chicago. Adjoining the hospital will be 
the Max Epstein Dispensary for which Mr. and Mrs. Epstein 
have given $100,000. In addition to performing the essential 
function of a dispensary it will provide a social center essential 
to the best work of the hospital. 

THE RUSH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF 
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

In connection with the Presbyterian Hospital and the Trus- 
tees of Rush Medical College there will be a medical school, the 
primary purpose of which will be the further training of prac- 
titioners of medicine. Only students holding the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine from a reputable school will be admitted. 
As both of the medical schools will be graduate schools, but each 
in a different sense, for the sake of clearness the school on the 
West Side will be known as the Postgraduate School. The 
Trustees of Rush Medical College will cease to give the degree 
of Doctor of Medicine. The postgraduate school in its purpose 
and methods and in the selection of its faculty will be an entirely 
new one under the control of the Board of Trustees of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. In recognition, however, of the co- 
operation of Rush Medical College in the formation of the new 
school and in recognition also of the long history of that college 



130 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

which now ceases to add any new practitioners to the profes- 
sion, the school will be known as the Rush Postgraduate Medi- 
cal School of the University of Chicago. 

Instruction and research in the Postgraduate School will be 
carried on chiefly in connection with the Presbyterian Hospital 
and the old Rush Medical College. The buildings of the former 
are at Congress, Wood, and Harrison streets and Hermitage 
Avenue, on the West Side of the city.; the Daniel A. Jones 
Building; the Jane Murdock Memorial Building provided by 
the bequest of Thomas Murdock; the Private Pavilion built by 
friends; and the Sprague Home for Nurses given by Mrs. A. A. 
Sprague and friends of O. S. A. Sprague in memory of A. A. 
Sprague and O. S. A. Sprague. The real estate and equipment 
of the Presbyterian Hospital are valued at $1,667,000. A new 
laboratory in connection with the hospital for the work of the 
Postgraduate School will be provided through the gift of 
$300,000 by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Rawson. 

Rush Medical College was one of the oldest institutions of 
learning in the Northwest, having been chartered in February, 
1837. The first course of lectures was delivered in a frame 
building in Clark Street, near Randolph, in 1843. In 1844 a 
college building was erected at the corner of Dearborn Avenue 
and Indiana Street. A new building erected in 1867 on the 
site was destroyed in the great fire of 187 1. In 1875 the Clinical 
Building was erected at Harrison Street and Hermitage Avenue, 
and in 1893 a Laboratory Building, which greatly increased the 
facilities for practical instruction, was erected on the south side 
of Harrison Street opposite the Clinical Building. The facilities 
for clinical instruction were further increased in 1903 by the 
addition of the adjoining Senn Building. The buildings may 
be reached by any of the trains of the Metropolitan Elevated 
Railway, the Marshfield Avenue station of which is three blocks 
east of the College; by the Ogden Avenue and Van Buren 
Street electric lines; or by the Harrison Street electric car line. 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
SETTLEMENT 

''Back of the Yards" — the Union Stock Yards — at 4630 
Gross Avenue, is the University of Chicago Settlement, estab- 
lished by the Philanthropic Committee of the Christian Union 
of the University. The Head Resident, Miss Mary McDowell, 
and twenty-six other residents, have here conducted a notable 
civic work, in which they have been assisted by students, 
alumni, and members of the Faculties. The University of 
Chicago Settlement was organized in 1894 by persons acting 
under the auspices of the Christian Union of the University 
and was formally incorporated under the laws of Illinois as a 
separate corporation in 1898. The Settlement has no endow- 
ment but depends for its support upon the voluntary contribu- 
tions made at the University religious services and by members 
of the Faculty, students, and other friends. The amount 
received in this way now considerably exceeds $10,000 a year. 
The Settlement began work without funds or property; it now 
has a Settlement House and Gymnasium valued at about 
$60,000. From twelve to sixteen workers are constantly in 
residence and the Settlement House is the meeting place for a 
large number of clubs, societies, and other organizations. These 
and all members of the University heartily agree with the senti- 
ment lustily voiced by Settlement children in their yell: 

One, two, three! Who are we? 

We are the members of the Universitee! 



132 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 



THE COAT-OF-ARMS 

The coat-of-arms, shown upon the front cover, was adopted 
by the Board of Trustees, August 15, 1910. To secure a design 
in accordance with the best precedents it was first needful to 
estabhsh heraldic bearings. For an academic institution a book 
is a frequent and appropriate charge. Since the coat-of-arms, 
however, is for the purpose of identifying the owner and not to 
symbolize his origin, achievements, and aspirations, a less fre- 
quent charge must be used. The phoenix, an eagle-shaped bird, 
arising from flames is an infrequent charge. The combination 
of the phoenix and book is uncommon. Another problem in 
the making of a coat-of-arms is the choice of colors. The best 
shields rarely display more than two. The phoenix and book 
are shown in the heraldic equivalent of maroon college color and 
white — gules and argent. In the first form of the coat-of-arms 
the book was placed upon the breast of the phoenix. It is so 
carved in many places in Harper Memorial Library. Further 
study of the design resulted in the decision to separate the book 
and the phoenix. The coat-of-arms of the University of Chicago 
is, therefore: argent, a phoenix displayed gules, langued azure, 
in flame proper. On a chief gules, a book expanded proper, 
edged and bound or. On dexter page of book the words, Crescat 
Scientia, inscribed, 3 lines in pesse sable. On sinister page the 
words, Vita Excolatur, inscribed, 3 lines in pesse sable. 

By using one line from "In Memoriam" which suggested 
the first part, the motto of the University, ''Crescat Scientia; 
Vita Excolatur," has been translated 

Let knowledge grow from more to more; 
And so be human life enriched. 



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"ALMA MATER" 

By E. H. Lewis, Ph.D., 1894 

Tonight we gladly sing the praise 
Of her who owns us as her sons; 
Our loyal voices let us raise, 
And bless her with our benisons. 
Of all fair mothers, fairest she, 
Most wise of all that wisest be. 
Most true of all the true, say we, 
Is our dear Alma Mater. 

Her mighty learning we would tell, 
Tho' life is something more than lore; 
She could not love her sons so well, 
Loved she not truth and honor more. 
We praise her breadth of charity, 
Her faith that truth shall make men free. 
That right shall live eternally, 
We praise our Alma Mater. 

The City White hath fled the earth. 
But where the azure waters lie, 
A nobler city hath its birth, 
The City Gray that ne'er shall die. 
For decades and for centuries. 
Its battlemented tow'rs shall rise. 
Beneath the hope-filled western skies, 
'Tis our dear Alma Mater. 



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